This month, the Indian government has been busy ensuring people use their identity card to access all sorts of things. Critics argue that this controversial biometric identity card both restricts fundamental rights and exposes more than 1bn people to privacy risks. The cards roots lie in a desire to curb illegal immigration in border villages in the aftermath of the 1999 Kargil War with Pakistan. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) was established six years later, in 2009, to issue Unique Identification numbers (UID), or Aadhar, to all residents of India.”]