The world's first biometric ID cards will be born in India.

<P> According to Taiwan BBC News reports, in order to resolve identity theft problems hinder the development of the country, India will be the country's 12 million people plan to establish national identity database, the world's first open a precedent for using biometrics. .</ P> <P> reported that the Indian government is planning to allot 12 billion people a proprietary 12-bit personal identification number, shall collect all fingerprints and iris scans, are considered experts on the technical and logical operations .extremely complex large projects. .The Government claims that this unique ID number to help ensure the distribution of welfare spending, but also make hundreds of millions of poor people to obtain proof of identity, he would be able to open a bank account or apply for license. .</ P> <P align=center> </ P> <P> learned that the scheme was 29 in India's nationwide, in March next year 100 million ID cards issued prior to 4 years, 600 million identity cards will be completed .distribution. .Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has appointed former Indian software giant Infosys CEO Nilekani over this unprecedented project. .</ P> <P> India about two-thirds of adults do not have bank accounts, many poor people because of lack of proof of identity or residence documents, will not enjoy such services. .In addition, to provide food for poor people and employment subsidies materials, 40% were in possession of forged identity of the "ghost population" and walk away, and then transferred to the black market profit by unscrupulous traders. .</ P> <P> But critics are concerned, India has less solid network infrastructure, the confidential data in transit in fear for fear of a leakage of information, and demographic information may also be reduced to business marketing database. .</ P> <P> </ P>.