New Directions for a Cloudy Future: TR’s Picks
Cloud computing is changing how businesses, consumers, and even armies store and use data. Technology Review looks at six ideas at the cutting edge.
Cloud biometrics: The Unique Identification Authority of India last year began taking fingerprints and iris scans of every Indian and issuing unique, 12-digit identification numbers based on the biometric readouts. The idea is to battle fraud in welfare programs, but the database is being called the world’s most ambitious human mapping exercise. India’s population of 1.2 billion means the system will have more profiles than Facebook (which has around 500 million users). Plans are under way to build a centralized data center in the technology city of Manesar.
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