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Professor Edgar Whitley (LSE): UID technically infeasible, have huge costs and with enormous potential for misuse

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Newsclick Production, May 28, 2012

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Professor Edgar Whitley, London School of Economics (LSE) spoke in TISS on the UID scheme proposed in India with biometric data. Prof. Whitley was the lead author of the LSE report that showed that a nation-wide biometric scheme would not be feasible, would have huge costs and create risks of identity thefts. The LSE Report contributed to the UK project being finally dropped. He examines the basis of such UID projects and questions their techno-economic viability, apart from their dangers for privacy. (Part 2, Questions and Answers)

A Brave New Glass House World

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Prabir Purkayastha, Newsclick, 12 May 2012

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was set up in the US in 1990 to not only protect civil liberties on the Internet but also to identify what these rights in the digital age.

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