Aadhaar, India’s 12-digit unique identification number, has lately been at the centre of a debate over data protection and privacy as the Narendra Modi government attempts to make the biometric platform mandatory for more and more schemes and services. In a long chat with Quartz, Nandan Nilekani, the first chairman of the Unique Identification Authority…

via Nandan Nilekani: Aadhaar is being demonised because it’s so transparent — Quartz