UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has praised India’s Aadhaar digital ID system as a “massive success” and said it could serve as a reference point for Britain’s planned digital identity programme, the “Brit Card.” Speaking after his recent visit to Mumbai, Starmer noted that while Aadhaar’s focus is on welfare delivery, the Brit Card would initially be used to curb illegal migrant working, a move already stirring privacy debates back home. Advertisement

During his two-day trip, Starmer met Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, who was instrumental in creating Aadhaar, to understand how India built and scaled the system to cover nearly 1.4 billion residents. Aadhaar, launched over 15 years ago, assigns each citizen a 12-digit biometric ID, streamlining access to welfare, banking, and essentia

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