A file photo of an Indian man giving a fingerprint impression to withdraw money from his bank account with his Aadhaar card in Hyderabad. The new Health ID has the potential to be made mandatory and deny services to those who opt out, while also posing the risk of data abuse, human rights campaigners say. — AFP
India’s government is using the coronavirus pandemic to push its plan to digitise the health records and data of its 1.3 billion people, despite concerns about privacy and increased surveillance, technology and human rights experts say.
India’s number of confirmed coronavirus cases have topped 5.4 million according to government data, with the virus spreading at one of the fastest paces in the world.
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