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Aadhaar: India’s top court upholds world’s largest biometric ID program, within limits

Posted on September 26, 2018June 25, 2025 by Dissent

Vidhi Doshi reports:

India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the validity of a giant and controversial government program to collect and store the biometric data of its billion-plus citizens, but placed new limits on how the data can be used and stored.

A five-judge bench ruled that while the government’s flagship Aadhaar program has huge benefits in delivering welfare efficiently, biometric data can no longer be used by private entities such as banks or mobile phone operators for authentication purposes, curbing the program’s ambitious scope as a universal ID.

Read more on Washington Post. There’s lots of coverage of the verdict and its implications all over the internet this morning.

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