More than 1 billion people in India have registered biometric identifiers as part of their required participation in the country’s Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) program, which plans to enroll all 1.27 billion citizens — 17% of the world’s population. The biometric service providers are Safran Identity & Security (formerly Morpho SAS) and NEC. Safran also provided the UIDAI database. UIDAI is used for government benefit programs, opening bank accounts (250 million to date), obtaining passports, securing mobile phone contracts, and more. Each citizen enrolls with ...