Thats moot unless every significant access point has a means and financial viability to verify the biometrics.
Even with such existing 'weaker' identities we are nowhere close to the quality of service that such 'weak' identies can support. Lets address the problem and not divert the issue with "shiny tech... look a squirrel". I would be more sympathetic if we are already in the ballpark of the quality of service that these 'weak' identities can support and we are getting bottlenecked there.
To put it charitably, with Aadhaar we are optimizing something that is not the bottlneck.
Right to privacy here mean, govt cannot force citizens to give up their biometric for simple things like creation of bank accounts.
Till now, PAN card was the only identification needed.
Even with such existing 'weaker' identities we are nowhere close to the quality of service that such 'weak' identies can support. Lets address the problem and not divert the issue with "shiny tech... look a squirrel". I would be more sympathetic if we are already in the ballpark of the quality of service that these 'weak' identities can support and we are getting bottlenecked there.
To put it charitably, with Aadhaar we are optimizing something that is not the bottlneck.