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Biometric national ID

Recorded year2010

India's Aadhaar gives over a billion people a digital identity.

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Fingerprint identificationRecorded · 1901enables
Census by computerRecorded · 1951enables
CCD image sensorRecorded · 1969requires
Cloud computingRecorded · 2006enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.