Aadhaar should be only for Indian Residents

There are demands from the Non Resident Indian(NRI,PIO) Community for aadhaar enrollment of themselves abroad. This issue goes beyond national identification systems and has security implications. I feel it should not be allowed due to the following reasons:

1) Venue of enrollment and sharing of biometric details:

Any country which hosts an enrollment center for collecting biometric details would in all likelihood ask for a copy of the biometric measurements taken. This could endanger the program. As not all foreign governments are friendly and trustworthy we cannot take chances.

2) Presence in India:

One of the foremost and indisputable aspects of enrollment into aadhaar is that all enrollments are happening within the country under controlled conditions. If enrollment is taken out of the country it will be impossible to prove that possession of aadhaar numbers implied the person was in India. This loophole could be exploited by illegal immigrants to claim that they were Persons of Indian Origin living in other countries like Bangladesh and have enrolled in their country itself and since returned to India.

3) Spurious enrollment data:

All that is being done currently to check the veracity of enrollment packets is just biometric uniqueness and the responsibility of demographic data accuracy is on the registrars. If foreign origin registrars are taken in and in case some of them for unknown reasons turn to tampering with bio-metric enrollment devices, may be unlimited number of unique bio-metric prints could be generated which when fed into the system over a long term cause it to be overwhelmed with fake and duplicate Unique numbers(Aadhaars).

4) Authentication requests from overseas:

While Aadhaar is a program to identify Indians In India, if overseas Indians are on-boarded then authentication requests from overseas may lead to violation of privacy or crimes responsibility of which could not be put on the criminal alone but also the identification system too and even worse punishment would need government to government cooperation(we already have enough enemies).