2020/12/08 by Yash Mehta, Mehta, Yash, Dev Patel +3
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting #Privacy, Security, and Data Protection #Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data #cs.CR
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2012.04215
8 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2020/12/08 · openalex publication_date 2020/12/08 · arxiv updated 2020/12/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A unique identification for citizens can lead to effective governance to manage and provide citizen-centric services. While ensuring this service, privacy of the citizens needs to be preserved. Aadhaar, the identification system by UIDAI has faced some critics regarding its privacy preserving feature. This paper discusses those concerns in Aadhaar system and proposed a new model for the Aadhaar system. The proposed solution is aimed to address the issue of collusion of third party service providers and profiling of Aadhaar users. The proposed solution uses a distributed model capturing the Aadhaar system, in which data of users is decentralized and stored in zonal office's databases as well as the CIDR. The proposed solution provides the functioning of the authentication process of the Aadhaar system more effective, as it reduces the number of requests being handled directly by the CIDR and also tackles the concern of correlation of data.