But PAN doesnt have your biometrics. Thats a difference.
PAN is needed only by those who have income beyond a certain limit. So even if you can profile with PAN, its only a very small number of people in India who actually have PAN and pay Income tax. Less than 2% of the population
With Biometics/aadhar, you can profile the whole country. what they eat, where they go, how much they spend and on what... Data is the new oil and anyone with this kind of data can seriously misuse it. More so if this data is easily hackable. If its hackable then biometrics in the database can be interchanged/erased etc etc.
I guess the supreme court may have taken the right decision. Just my thoughts.
Aadhar intially was envisaged so that subsidies and other govt benefits go directly to the end user. I guess it still serves its purpose as supreme court has withheld it that aadhar will be needed for using funds from govt corpus
You are contradicting yourself.
if biometrics is the problem then how can you support it for giving govt benefits to the poor?
We have count less cards before ration card /BPL card ? whats wrong with that ??
How can biometrics/adhaar be justified for giving benifits to the poor and not to other people for other usecases ??
if it works for them then it would work for others too?
What you stated initially is exactly the problem.
PAN should have been mandatory and we would not need adhaar.
The reality is now we have 95% people having adhaar and may be 5-10% people having PAN
Thats exactly the reason we need Adhaar.
I am not supporting biomentrics but we need universal id/auth mechanism.
today you are profiled by Google/Facebook they know more things about you than you know yourself.Put some laws and secure who and what can access data from Adhaar and how they use it but limiting its usecase to govt is not the answer.
The amount of money and time we wasted on adhaar as a nation is going to waste.
BTW you are still needed to link adhaar to PAN for tax and PAN is linked to all so yes theoretically you can be still be tracked/hacked nothing is changing.