Dear All, This is to introduce an ongoing project which we hope will contribute to the public debate on Aadhaar. This work is in response to the argument that India should adopt a biometric identification system because several other countries have done it. We set out to examine which other countries had done this (starting with commonwealth countries for now), whether they had data protection safeguards and whether they were democracies. Scroll.in was kind enough to build an infographic based on our dataset which you can see here <https://scroll.in/article/851282/are-countries-with-a-poor-democratic-record...>. It appears that it is mostly countries with a poor democratic record that use these systems. Please do take a look. This is ongoing work, so we would welcome additional information and ways in which we can improve it. In the meantime we hope that it is of use to you. Best, Chinmayi and Smitha Chinmayi Arun | Executive Director Centre for Communication Governance | National Law University, Delhi | Sector-14, Dwarka, New Delhi - 110078 | Cell: (+91) 971-770-2630 <+91%2097177%2002630> | Fax: (+91) 11-280-34256 | www.ccgdelhi.org . <http://goog_561379142/>www.nludelhi.ac.in | Twitter: @chinmayiarun <https://twitter.com/CCGDelhi>