[Reader-list] Scrap Unique Identification Number (UID)/ Aadhar project involving biometric data collection linked to National Population Register (NPR): Gopal Krishna

[Prakash K Ray]

These are the references and notes of the letter I posted under this
subject. I am sorry for the inconvenience.

Thanks,

prakash

[1]           Biometrics Design Standards For UID Applications, Planning
Commission, prepared by: Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
Committee on Biometrics, p. 9, Version 1.0, December 2009



[2]           Study is titled “Independent Testing of Iris Recognition
Technology, Final Report, May 2005” referred in the report of the Biometrics
Design Standards For UID Applications, Planning Commission, prepared by:
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Committee on Biometrics, p.
56, Version 1.0, December 2009



[3]               Edwin, Black *IBM* and the *Holocaust*: The Strategic
Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation, 2001,
Crown Publishing and others worldwide, US

[4]              Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, in his budget speech
allocated a budget of Rs. 1900 crore for financial year 2010-11

[5]               In an Interview to Shelley Singh & Pramugdha Mamgain,
‘Identity will help the poor participate in economic growth’: Nandan
Nilekani, 26 May 2010, The Economic Times

[6]               Balchand K, AADHAR not mandatory, says Nilekani, May 12,
2010, The Hindu



[7]           Biometrics Design Standards For UID Applications, Planning
Commission, prepared by: Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
Committee on Biometrics, p. 25, Version 1.0, December 2009



[8]              Biometrics Design Standards For UID Applications, Planning
Commission, prepared by: Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
Committee on Biometrics, p. 8, Version 1.0, December 2009



[9]           Biometrics Design Standards For UID Applications, Planning
Commission, prepared by: Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
Committee on Biometrics, p. 5, Version 1.0, December 2009



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[i]*               Notes*

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                        [i]* *Unique Identification Authority of India
(UIDAI) was constituted by the Government of India on 28th January, 2009 as
an attached office of the Planning Commission. Prime Minister’s Council on
UID Authority was constituted on 30th July, 2009 and its first meeting was
held on 12th August, 2009. Subsequently, the Government constituted a
Cabinet Committee on Unique Identification Authority of India related issues
(CC-UIDAI) in October 2009 to look into all issues relating to UIDAI
including its organisation, plans, policies, programmes, schemes, funding
and methodology to be adopted for achieving the objectives of the Authority.
On June 25th 2009, the Union Cabinet created and approved the position of
the Chairperson of the UIDAI, and appointed Nandan Nilekani as the first
Chairperson in the rank and status of a Cabinet Minister. R S Sharma has
been appointed the Director General. Address by the President of India, to
Parliament dated 22nd February 2010 notes,* “*The Unique Identification
Authority of India has been established with a mandate to issue unique
identity numbers based on biometrics to all residents of India. This mammoth
and unprecedented exercise will serve as a great enabler to improve
targeting and delivery of major government welfare programmes and public
services, especially to those who are poor and marginalized. The first set
of unique identity numbers is expected to be issued in the early part of
2011.”

[ii]               Copy of the Office Memorandum of Unique Identification
Authority of India (UIDAI) dated September 29, 2009 was forwarded to Cabinet
Secretary, Principal Secretary to the PM, all the Secretaries to the
Government of India, all the Chief Secretaries of the States and Union
Territories for information

[iii]             The Authority’s Biometrics Committee informs, “Fingerprint
technology constitutes approximately half of the total biometrics market”.
It attempts to assure citizens by saying, “The iris sample acquisition is
done without physical contact and without too much inconvenience to the
person whose iris image is being acquired. Iris has no association with law
enforcement and has not received negative press and may therefore be more
readily accepted.”



                The report of the Biometrics Committee’s states, “The
performance of iris authentication can be impaired by the use of spectacles
or contact lenses. Also, some people may be missing one or both eyes while
others may not have the motor control necessary to reliably enroll in an
iris based system. Until recently, iris code representation and matching was
proprietary and patented. Iris is emerging as the third standard biometric
identifier after expiration of patents and changes in vendor practices.”