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Aadhaar means ‘foundation’ or ‘support’ in several Indian languages. Utter the word ‘aadhaar’ anywhere across the length and breadth of India today, and you will most certainly evoke India’s national biometric identification programme, the largest of its kind anywhere in the world. By the year 2019, the government had issued a twelve-digit unique ID to nearly every adult resident in India, linked to minimal biometric (fingerprints, iris scan data and facial photograph) and biographical (name, age, gender, address) information in a centralised database.
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