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India's national ID program raises privacy concerns

By PBS NewsHour
Narrated by: PBS NewsHour
Unabridged — 7 minutes
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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.