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India Stack: Opening the digital marketplace to the masses
New Delhi has pioneered a new approach to online infrastructure in its drive to connect 1.4 billion people, but there are privacy and data protection concerns.
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India’s public digital infrastructure has become a core part of PM Narendra Modi’s efforts to present India as a nascent economic superpower, but there are also growing concerns over the use of the data.
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Benjamin Parkin, John Reed and Jyotsna Singh
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A decade ago, Mr Tej Pal signed up for India’s Aadhaar biometric identity scheme, acquiring his first national identification card.
A few years later, the 44-year-old, who sells fruit near Delhi, used it to open his first bank account. Last year, he took a loan to buy his first smartphone to sign up for the Unified Payments Interface (UPI), India’s digital money system.
