Comments on: National Id: A solution or a problem? http://www.bloggernews.net/15198 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:32:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: naavi http://www.bloggernews.net/15198#comment-1413441 naavi Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:54:31 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/15198#comment-1413441 Please note that UID is now being spoken off as an ID for Residents and not for Citizens. Details here: http://www.bloggernews.net/122404 Please note that UID is now being spoken off as an ID for Residents and not for Citizens.

Details here: http://www.bloggernews.net/122404

]]> By: Yogesh Raja http://www.bloggernews.net/15198#comment-3187 Yogesh Raja Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:29:43 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/15198#comment-3187 Biometric ID documents (cards and passports) will work fine for organisations where everyone concerned is on the database and every point of transaction has equipment to read these documents. Nationally it is virtually impossible to satisfy both these conditions and hence it is obvious that these documents will fail. In reality they will tempt fraudsters to use fakes of these documents as IDs where there is no reading equipment and hence make bad problems worse by boosting identity fraud. Biometric ID documents (cards and passports) will work fine for organisations where everyone concerned is on the database and every point of transaction has equipment to read these documents.

Nationally it is virtually impossible to satisfy both these conditions and hence it is obvious that these documents will fail. In reality they will tempt fraudsters to use fakes of these documents as IDs where there is no reading equipment and hence make bad problems worse by boosting identity fraud.

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