Aadhar should have names of father, husband for women: Ex-CEC (moneycontrol.com)
Gopalaswami said south Indians, especially women, had problems in getting their surnames right in the supporting documents like PAN cards, passports and voters identity card.It's not obvious to me how much the issue presented in the article matters in India's biometric ID management scheme, but I assume he knows his own job.
But it is interesting to note that, as the world population approaches an increasingly connected 7 billion people, an identity management technology that has been with humans (probably) since pre-history — the name as a unique identifier — though still as good as ever in a great many applications, is having a hard time coping with globalization and very large states.
