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In the recent years, Governments around the world have proactively pushed their policies to build an efficient digital identity ecosystem. Such positive actions represent the desire by world societies to advance beyond their traditional and inefficient paper-based existence, to highly integrated digital economies. One such concept was the Aadhar from the Government of the Republic of India. It is a unique 12-digit number that is provided to the citizens of India for the successful enrolment of their data into the Aadhaar database. The official body that looks out the operations of the Aadhaar venture is UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India). Installations of Aadhaar system, include biometric data components such as iris scans and fingerprints. A successful enrolment is confirmed when the nature of the biometrics captured meet certain conditions and when they pass the redundancy check, i.e verification of the given biometrics with the existing data in the Aadhaar to avoid counterfeit enlistment of data. As of November 2021, 1.3 billion Aadhaar has been produced at an expenditure of around 60 billion Rupees. It should be secured because there will be a lot of sensitive data stored in this database.

The rewards associated with the implementation of such digital identity systems include public and, or commercial services accessibility for the greater population of the country. The Aadhaar database holds personal information and biometric data — like iris scans and fingerprints of more than 1.3 billion Indian residents. Anyone enrolled in the database can use their information to open a bank account or apply for a Passport and even buy their car or book hotel stays. Even companies and organizations like Zomato or OLA can take advantage of the Aadhaar data to recognize their clients. However, there is also a possibility for substantial long-term risks in relation to the utilization of digital identity systems; such risks must therefore be addressed and without fail.