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Phone numbers stink for security and authentication. They stink because most of us have so much invested in these digits that they've become de facto identities. At the same time, when you lose control over a phone number -- maybe…
Device fingerprinting.
BUT FACEBOOK AND ADVERTISERS CAN STILL REIDENTIFY YOU. FFS Facebook, ya liars.
Opinion: Digital identification systems are meant to aid the marginalized. Actually, they're ripe for abuse.
FFS FACEBOOK.
Your phone number was never meant to be your identity. Now that it effectively is, we're all at risk.
Biometrics are moving way beyond fingerprints: To fight fraud, companies are building databases on people’s behaviors and movements.
India’s biometric ID system is a cautionary tale.
‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances - The New York Times
The government requires its people to submit finger, eye and facial images. The ID is mandatory for many services, but opponents say it infringes privacy.
Mark Zuckerberg: "At some point during the last several years, someone has probably accessed your public information." Yep. So why didn't you do something about it Zuck?
UIDAI says it is the sole custodian of citizen information. But state governments and police are using Aadhaar numbers to consolidate data, which is being stored without any coherent data security policy and is accessed by private players.
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India's Aadhaar implementation is the largest biometric system in the world, holding about 1.2 billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. It's also an era where this sort of information is constantly leaked
Not long ago trumpeted as the world’s largest biometric database, India’s Aadhaar system covering 1.2bn citizens is rapidly acquiring a less impressive reputation as the easiest to breach.
It was only last November that the UIDAI asserted that “Aadhaar data is fully safe and secure and there has been no data leak or breach at UIDAI.” Today, The Tribune “purchased” a service being offered by anonymous sellers over WhatsApp that provided unrestricted access to de
FFS. MAC addresses uniquely identify devices and are trivial to sniff and connect to device owners.
Social security numbers are bad, but it's really hard to do better.
India’s digital ID scheme has enrolled more than 1bn people in under a decade – but there are concerns about its security and potential for abuse