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but not the “system false acceptance” rate.
Thus, it may be realised that the relationships
between the measurands in an operational test
(system false acceptance/ system false rejection)
and those in either technology tests (false
match/false nonmatch) or scenario tests (false
acceptance/false rejection) will be difficult to assess.
It can be concluded that the three types of tests are
measuring incommensurate quantities and therefore
it is expected that the values for the same
technologies will vary widely and unpredictably
over the three types of tests.
6.0 Conclusion
The Unique Identity Project in India makes its
promises to help enhance and ameliorate the social,
political and economic lives of the people of India.
The Government continues to envisage it from a
developmental angle, but it is also important to look
at its' fundamental building blocks from the
skeptical eyes of a technologist. This has been
successfully achieved by placing a technocrat like
Nandan Nilekani as the Chairman. However, for a
country as large and diverse as India, the smallest of
errors can be expected to propagate fast and cause a
problem much bigger than one would expect. The
technologies being employed for identity
verification and deduplication, that is, fingerprint
and iris scan biometrics offer challenges, which
need to be dealt with before the project is launched
into the masses. This paper strives to suggest the
possible areas where these problems can be
eradicated, and offer solutions using statistical
techniques to tackle uncertainties arising in areas
where these problems cannot be gotten rid of. The
UID project is one that offers to India great hope's: in
terms of securing the nation from terrorists, helping
policies made for the poor reach the intended masses
and delivering social welfare programmes by
making them more inclusive of companies, to speak
on broad terms. However, there exist loopholes in its
planning and implementation. Once these can be
handled, there is not much that can stop the nation
from truly shining.
References
[1]: http://uidai.gov.in/
[2]: Biometrics Design Standards for UID
Applications, www.uidai.gov.in.
[3]: R. Ramakumar, The Unique ID Project in
India: A Skeptical Note
[4]: P.Stanleya, Wilson Jebersona, V.V. Klinsegaa:
Biometric Authentication: A Trustworthy
Technology for Improved Authentication,
2009 International Conference on Future
Networks
[5]: De:Duplication:The complexity in the Unique
ID context.4G Identity solutions
[6]: Rajanish Dass, Unique Identity Project in
India: A Divine Dream or a Miscalculated
Heroism?
[7]: James L. Wayman, Antonio Possolo, and
Anthony J. Mansfield, Fundamental issues in
biometric performance testing: A modern
statistical and philosophical framework for
uncertainty assessment
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