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    India's national ID program raises privacy concerns
    India's national ID program raises privacy concerns
    India's national ID program raises privacy concerns
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    India's national ID program raises privacy concerns

    Written by PBS NewsHour

    Narrated by PBS NewsHour

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    Since 2010, India has undertaken what is by far the largest citizen registration drive in history by documenting most of its 1.3 billion people into a single national identification database. The system assigns a number and records fingerprints and iris scans. NewsHour Weekend Special Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the country's biometric database and the privacy concerns it raises.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNewsHour Productions
    Release dateJul 29, 2017
    ISBN9781987109559
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