Abstract
The Aadhaar is a project of the Government of India and is the most ambitious program in the world aimed at issuing unique 12-digit numbers to every Indian as well as recording their biometrics for authentication services. A data leak would be potentially disastrous and would constitute a major breach of privacy as well. Such a leak can take place at the application level, the network level and the storage level. Data pertaining to the number of data breaches in the past decade has been analyzed to emphasize the importance of a secure ecosystem for such an ambitious project. A new methodology has also been studied which will help in heightening the security of the Aadhaar ecosystem and safeguarding the privacy of the people better.
Keywords
- Aadhaar
- UIDAI
- Security
- Privacy
- Data
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsReferences
Agrawal, S., Banerjee, S., Sharma, S.: Privacy and security of Aadhaar: a computer science perspective. Econ. Polit. Wkly. 52(37), 93–102 (2017)
Chander, S., Kush, A.: Unique identification number and e-governance security. Int. J. Comput. Bus. Res. 1(1) (2010)
Constantine, C.: Big data: an information security context. Netw. Secur. 2014(1), 18–19 (2014)
Dayal, M., Singh, N.: An anatomization of Aadhaar Card data set—a big data challenge. Procedia Comput. Sci. 85, 733–739 (2016)
Faundez-Zanuy, M.: Biometric security technology. IEEE Aerosp. Electron. Syst. Mag. 21(6), 15–26 (2006)
Lafuente, G.: The big data security challenge. Netw. Secur. 2015(1), 12–14 (2015)
Liu, S., Silverman, M.: A practical guide to biometric security technology. IT Prof. 3(1), 27–32 (2001)
Mahajan, P., Gaba, G., Chauhan, N.S.: Big data security. IITM J. Manage. IT 7(1), 89–94 (2016)
Moreno, J., Serrano, M.A., Fernández-Medina, E.: Main issues in big data security. Future Internet 8(3), 44 (2016)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2020 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
About this paper
Cite this paper
Aditya Sai Srinivas, T., Somula, R., Govinda, K. (2020). Privacy and Security in Aadhaar. In: Satapathy, S., Bhateja, V., Mohanty, J., Udgata, S. (eds) Smart Intelligent Computing and Applications . Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 159. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9282-5_38
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9282-5_38
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-13-9281-8
Online ISBN: 978-981-13-9282-5
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and RoboticsIntelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)