Aadhaar numbers can be authenticated in three ways – biometric authentication, authentication using OTP, and the shadowy “demographic authentication” that is now removed from the authentication logs. The stories in this archive are related with authentication failures – when an Aadhaar cannot be authenticated using the Aadhaar holder’s biometrics usually, and less often, OTP.
Telangana Benefit Disbursement Portal shows dropping authentication success ratio in 2018 with regard to NREGA and social pensions at 86.14% – it was 90.99% in December, 2017, and 91.87% in November, 2017. This is an average failure of at least 10% authentication, and growing in the last few months Of Read more…
Etwariya Devi, age 67, widow, died of starvation in Sonpurwa village of Garhwa district’s Majhiaon block on December 25th, 2017, when glitches caused a failure in authentication for her daughter-in-law’s Aadhaar with her fingerprints, making the family unable to procure food. Aadhaar failures had also disrupted her pension since October. Read more…