Privacy concerns shape biggest ID project ever

The government of India hopes to have given half of the country’s residents an identification number within four years of the launch of the most ambitious project of its kind ever attempted. The Unique Identification Authority of India’s (UIDAI) Director General Ram Sharma told FutureGov that the UID project, which is expected to roll out around October this year, will see 600 million residents registered with a unique identity number by 2014, if all goes according to plan.

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