With more Aadhaar data leaking and security breaches being reported everyday, The Aadhaar project is harming citizens more than it is helping them. With biometrics not being recognized, people are being denied services. In this context the debate on Aadhaar needs to be pushed further to look at why it is failing. Our speaker for the event is Srinivas Kodali, who was one of the early people to raise security issues on Aadhaar and publish a research paper qauntifying Aadhaar leaks to 130 million numbers

Srinivas Kodali is a inter disciplinary researcher working on data, cities and internet. He graduated from IIT Madras with a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering. He has been associated with various internet communities and movements in India. As part of these communities, he has been advocating data standards, open data and cyber security in India.