Building A Biometric Database For An Entire Country
According to a recent report from HSBC, titled the Trust In Technology report, at the moment India is said to be leading globally when it comes to the adoption of biometric technology.
The report indicates that people in India are about 3x more likely to use bioidentification systems in order to identify themselves, like fingerprint scanning or iris recognition.
When it comes to adopting biometric systems, Asia and the Middle East are ahead of the trend compared to Western nations. The reason for this? It's said that the people in those areas have a greater understanding of the technology and more optimism and trust about using it.
The biometric trend is being adopted and pushed not only by government, but a number of private corporations around the world are also looking to embrace the technology as well.
One government department in Delhi, India, recently started requiring its employees to submit to a bioidentification system in order to have their attendance tracked. They say that they have been having issues with attendance and so having folks log in via a biometric system is their solution to that problem.
Those who don't use the system to properly mark their attendance are allegedly going to be met with disciplinary action over the matter.
They aren't the only government workers on the system either. It's reported that tens of thousands of government officials are being required to sign in with the biometric system and their attendance is even listed online and accessible to the public. They plan for program to be expanded and included every worker, right down to the level of district subdivisions.
India is presently said to be working on building a biometric database for the entire nation, roughly 1.3 billion people. It's referred to as the Aadhaar program.
The biometric system which is being marketed as an identity program, is looking to collect the fingerprints and iris data from every single person in the country. And at the moment, it's estimated that about 9 out of 10 Indians have already registered with the system. Along with their registration they were given a 12-digit number and that number is able to be verified when they confirm their biometric identification by scanning their eye or finger.
It started out as an initiative to keep track of welfare waste and supposedly offer the poor a method for being able to prove their identity. But now, you allegedly need to be registered if you want to pay your taxes, or collect your pension, and access other state benefits. It started out as voluntary but it isn't any longer; it's now viewed as compulsory. The national biometric program first began focusing mostly on government applications, but it has quickly spread to the financial sector and airport screening.
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Sources:
http://www.businesstoday.in/current/economy-politics/india-leads-globally-in-adoption-of-biometric-tech-report/story/253168.html
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2017/jun/08/delhi-govt-employees-to-mark-attendance-through-biometric-system-1614371.html
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-india-database-2017-story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/world/asia/in-india-government-tracks-its-own.html?_r=0
http://findbiometrics.com/biometric-attendance-india-404243/
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In my opinion, I would support the use of biometric system as it is convenient and most important is , secure. There are more and more daily issue a person need to deal with as the technology level grow. And dealing with issues with traditional password or security ID may be dangered by the action from hackers,while biometric ID requires yourself for approval, avoiding the possibility to be hacked.
I support the use of it voluntarily. And this system is still susceptible to hacker attacks and things going wrong :/ , and if your biometric id gets compromised it's a much bigger and worse issue than if your generic password for some system simply gets stolen. Much worse.
Biometrics are less secure than passwords -- this is why
https://betanews.com/2016/08/24/unsafe-biometrics/
Biometrics Are Coming, Along With Serious Security Concerns
https://www.wired.com/2016/03/biometrics-coming-along-serious-security-concerns/
lt will happen globally, it's just a matter of time. I think that they are waiting for the baby boomers to pass away as it would be this generation that would be the most against it. The security concerns are valid. In my line of work, I'm waiting for the day in which they tell me that it's mandatory to comply. They will roll it our to the poorer nations first that are more dependent on government resources and then try to bankrupt the other countries in order to force more reliance and compliance on the state.
This is just crazy, wonder when this will be implemented in the u.s.
That would be difficult.
Wow imagine having to do biometrics for over 1.3 billion people! Great find @doitvoluntarily - it's always a guarantee learning something useful and very valuable from each of your posts!
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Biometric is a big trend, I don't think we can avoid it in the near future.
has a feeling of the police state ....you WILL do it or else !
Its good to see how technology is changing our lifes. Thank for sharing this with us.
There will be a lot of advantages to be gained by adopting this system.
This information makes me think of the end times we are living in. Example: Revelation 13:16-18King James Version (KJV)
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Somehow, I knew this was coming =) If I hadn't found it already mentioned, I was going to.
I will point out that this technology doesn't place a mark on people at all, merely looks at our unique marks we already have, and uses them.
However, it does seem that the technology is filling the balance of the prophecy, in that it is being used to control personal financial activity. India has recently withdrawn from circulation the bill most commonly used in transactions there, claiming it was fighting tax evasion, black markets, etc..
I am more and more alarmed that people are willing to accept more and more impositions on their liberty, which are neither necessary, nor even beneficial.
Thanks for beating me to the punch!