If the petitioners lose, DNA authentication will come 100 percent: AMA on Aadhaar

On the eve of India’s 69th Republic Day a group of 10 experts on the topic of Aadhaar and related activities took to the social platform, Reddit to answer all sorts of questions redditors could throw at them. [caption id=“attachment_4320945” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image[/caption] It’s day one of the AMA on Aadhaar, and 300 plus comments later, we have a ton of answers, some of which were surprisingly based on hard facts. So we browsed through the post and came up with some of the most important and shocking answers to some really cool Aadhaar-related questions. Indeed, these are answers to all the questions you will not find on UIDAI’s support site. On probabilistic science and deterministic matching

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

From a tech POV, the largest failure in Aadhaar is…

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

All prior warnings on aadhaar raised by various people are now provable with solid data.

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

The single biggest security flaw with Aadhaar

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

On sharing data with service providers

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

If I have a rifle, can I argue that I will only use it like a stick?

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

What is the recourse for an individual in case there is a data breach

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

On the argument that Aadhaar leads to surveillance

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

Are the policies governing #Aadhaar in the best interest of #TheCommonMan?

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

Is DNA as an additional biometric after facial recognition?

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

The connection between Aadhaar and mobile phones

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

Everyone’s collecting data, why is it such a problem when the government does it?

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

Should I bother getting an Aadhaar card made or no?

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

What if the judgement does in comes favor of the petitioners?

Comment from discussion AMA on Aadhaar with Kiran Jonnalagadda, Anivar Aravind, Prasanna S, Reetika Khera, Nikhil Pahwa, Chinmayi Arun, Thejesh GN, Saikat Dutta, Anand V and Anjali Bharadwaj.

As mentioned earlier, this is just day one of the AMA and the authors of the post have promised to keep it live until the interest stays. So if you have something even more interesting than the questions above, do all of us a favour and type it down here so we can all be enlightened. You can also read our Aadhaar Special coverage with opinions and different viewpoints by clicking **here** .