India's national ID system: Danger grows in a privacy vacuum

Computer Law and Security Review

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 479-491

  Greenleaf, Graham ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Data protection; ID card; ID number; Identity; India; Privacy; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

DATA PROTECTION; ID CARDS; ID NUMBER; IDENTITY; INDIA; PRIVACY; SURVEILLANCE;

BIOMETRICS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MONITORING; VACUUM;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 77957963270     PISSN: 02673649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clsr.2010.07.009     Document Type: Article

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