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Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry (“APAAR”) is an Aadhaar-based unique ID project for students across India initiated in July 2023 and declared a ‘digital public infrastructure’ earlier this year. States and UTs across India have passed directions to start enrolling students to the programme based on their Aadhaar cards and hold special parent-teacher meetings to […]
This post was updated on October 01, 2024. tl;dr In recent years, there have been rising instances of facial recognition technologies and biometric scans being deployed by India’s union and state government agencies to record attendance. This technology is being deployed at public offices, hospitals, and schools without adequate checks or safeguards, endangering vulnerable data […]