According to Atul Nair, a security expert, the Aadhaar numbers of more than 110 million farmers were exposed on an Indian government website called Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, an initiative by the government of India in which all farmers will get annual income support.
In the last few years, there has been a growing push for digital identification in the United States. New cryptographic techniques, the benefits of which have already been seen with the rise of cryptocurrencies, have instilled growing confidence within state governments that digital forms of