{"id":30168,"date":"2018-10-26T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30168"},"modified":"2018-10-26T14:30:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:00:54","slug":"biometric-failure-is-not-related-to-age-says-uidai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/biometric-failure-is-not-related-to-age-says-uidai\/","title":{"rendered":"Biometric failure is not related to age, says UIDAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/biometric-failure-is-not-related-to-age-says-uidai\/article23428949.ece\"><strong>Biometric failure is not related to age, says UIDAI<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey repliesto a Supreme Court questionnaire from the petitioners challenging the Aadhaar scheme<\/p>\n<p><strong>Petitioners\u2019 argument<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The petitioners have argued that Aadhaar is prone to biometric authentication failure and results in financial exclusion of senior citizens and those employed in manual labour<\/p>\n<p><strong>UIDAI\u2019s stand<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Authentication failures do not mean exclusion or denial of subsidies, benefits or services since the requesting entities are obliged under the law to provide for exception-handling mechanisms<\/li>\n<li>Several alternatives to biometric authentication are available. Besides, an Aadhaar holder could always update his biometrics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biometric failure is not related to age, says UIDAI Context UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey repliesto a Supreme Court questionnaire from the petitioners challenging the Aadhaar scheme Petitioners\u2019 argument The petitioners have argued that Aadhaar is prone to biometric authentication failure and results in financial exclusion of senior citizens and those employed in manual labour&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/biometric-failure-is-not-related-to-age-says-uidai\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biometric failure is not related to age, says UIDAI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704866616},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}