Malavika Jayaram, a privacy researcher at Harvard University, says Aadhaar makes people who are vulnerable take responsibility for preventing fraud.”You are shifting the burden of responsibility onto the person who is weakest in the chain, expecting the least sophisticated in the system to make sound technical decisions about when to use biometrics,” she says. “It’s insane.”

via Indian election win threatens biggest biometrics bank – tech – 20 May 2014 – New Scientist.