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Human rights groups cautioned that the Taliban's capture of biometric devices left by the US military, and access to donor-supported biometric ID systems (e.g., by UN agencies and the World Bank) used...
In 2021, a hacker breached the Argentinian government's IT network and claimed to have stolen ID card details for the country's entire population. Data was reportedly being sold in private circles. Of...
In 2013, a Constitutional Tribunal ruling retroactively stripped thousands of persons of Haitian descent of their Dominican citizenship. Eva Hayes de Kalaf's book, *Legal Identity, Race and Belonging...
Security company vpnMentor found that sensitive personal data of the entire population, including 6.7 million children, was exposed on an unsecured server owned by Ecuadorian company Novaestrat.
IT security researchers discovered an encryption vulnerability, known as ROCA (Return of the Coppersmith Attack), associated with the chips used in Estonia's IDs that allowed for malware-based attacks...
A hacker was able to obtain the ID photos of almost 300,000 people. The police arrested an Estonian citizen whose computer was used to commit the theft.
A survey on 325 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups found that 42% faced problems with Aadhaar. As a result, many went hungry for months without access to welfare.
HIV positive patients reportedly stopped seeking treatment due to fears that linking their identities to Aadhaar would expose their status. Although not mandatory, antiretroviral therapy centres encou...
The Public Accounts Committee raised concerns over high rates of failure associated with Aadhaar biometric verification. Due to these failures, eligible beneficiaries were excluded from social welfare...
In 2018, an article in the Tribune claimed that Aadhaar data could be bought online for less than £6. For a similar fee, it was said that software to print out Aadhaar cards could be purchased. The Un...
The Unique Identification Authority of India temporarily barred Bharti Airtel and Airtel Payments after allegations emerged that Bharti Airtel made use of Aadhaar-linked eKYC (electronic Know Your Cu...
A woman and her twin babies died after allegedly being denied treatment at the hospital, as she was not carrying an Aadhaar card or a maternity card issued by the government.
Reports claim that an 11-year-old girl named Santoshi Kumari died of hunger because her family's ration card was not linked to Aadhaar. Officials have denied that Santoshi died of starvation and said...
An investigative report by Decode found that failures in AI facial recognition, which is linked to Aadhaar biometrics, have left half of eligible pregnant and nursing mothers without rations by the en...
Rohingya communities living as refugees in India initially held UNHCR Refugee Cards that enabled them to obtain Aadhaar cards. At that time, Aadhaar was seen as a means of social inclusion. However, a...
Indonesia's electronic ID, known as e-KTP (Electronic-Kartu Tanda Penduduk), was mired in a corruption scandal involving senior politicians and trillions of public funds (about IDR 2.3 trillion). Amid...
The World Bank's Identification System for Enhancing Access to Services (IDEA) Project in Bangladesh, amounting to USD 195 million, was embroiled in collusive practices and bribery. The Bank eventuall...
The Supreme Court ruled that the country’s mandatory biometric ID project was unconstitutional and a violation of privacy. Drawing on reasoning from India’s Supreme Court ruling, Jamaica’s Supreme Cou...
Several issues have emerged with the 'My Number Card', especially with measures to link it to healthcare. Some issues include: a lack of knowledge among the public on how to link their cards to disabi...
On 14 October 2021, the Kenyan High Court declared the rollout of the Huduma Namba (NIIMS) digital ID cards to be unconstitutional and invalid. The court ruled that the data collection was illegal for...
Long before the Kenyan Huduma Namba digital ID was introduced, existing IDs and processes reportedly discriminated against the Nubians and their recognition in Kenya. When plans for the digital ID wer...
Mexico's proposal for a central digital ID database, Clave Única de Registro de Población (CUID), raised concerns among rights groups about potential surveillance. These escalated when legal reforms w...
For stateless persons, such as the Rohingya community, the inability to obtain a digital ID entrenches their experience of stateleness. It limits their access to rights and essential services, such as...
A mandatory measure to link SIMs with IDs saw about 73 million SIMs being disconnected for failing to do so. People cite various reasons for not linking the systems, ranging from concerns over privacy...
Claims surfaced based on a WikiLeaks revelation that Pakistani officials had offered Pakistan’s entire citizen biometric database, maintained by the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA...
A Joint Investigation Team (JIT), which was formed to probe a data leak from the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), found that the data of about 2.7 million citizens had been compr...
Until a landmark ruling in 2022, Pakistani children of single mothers could not register for the country's digital ID scheme. Instead, individuals registering for digital IDs needed to show their fath...
Reports surfaced that cybercriminals are selling stolen digital identities of Singaporeans on the Dark Web, with prices starting at $8. The stolen data contained biometric information, such as fingerp...
300,000 IDs bearing certificates for e-signatures contained security errors through which the electronic signatures of individuals could be stolen.
Nearly 2 million digital IDs were blocked by the government, which deemed them 'suspicious'. In January 2024, the High Court of South Africa ruled that the move was unconstitutional.
In 2017, a Fundamental Rights petition was filed by M.R. Ratnasabapathy against Sri Lanka's electronic National Identity Card (e-NIC) project. The petitioner argued that the project granted wide power...