A 3 Feb. tweet from the Unique Identification Authority of India's India Stack account—in an effort to welcome OnGrid to the project—contained a picture showing random people identified on the street with the Aadhaar system, sparking controversy over the system afresh, Mashable reports. India Stack is "an infrastructure through which government bodies as well as private entities could leverage Aadhaar's database of individual identities," the report states. OnGrid is one of 200 companies working with the UIDAI. While both OnGrid and India Stack removed the picture from Twitter, with OnGrid calling the picture a tool for "representation purposes only," conversations about Aadhar's flaws continued. "It is poorly designed, and it is being poorly verified,” said Member of Parliament Rajeev Chandrasekhar. “Aadhaar isn’t foolproof, and this has resulted in fake data get[ting] into the system."
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