Who will bear the costs for rescuing the people who get falsely accepted and falsely rejected?

Hitoshi Kokumai
3 min readApr 22, 2021

“India uses controversial Aadhaar facial biometrics to identify COVID vaccination recipients — Safer than eyeballs or fingerprints, apparently” https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/09/india_facial_id_covid_vaccinations/

On top of the issues raised in the report comes this question — Who will bear the costs for rescuing the people who get falsely accepted and falsely rejected?

Or, the presence of falsely accepted and falsely rejected people is supposed to be dumped into a Rabbit Hole, isn’t it?

< KeReference >

“What would it be like if Vested Interests or Sunk Costs are placed above Logic?”

“Inconvenience behind Convenience of Biometrics

“Quantitative Examination of Multiple Authenticator Deployment”

Negative Security Effect of Biometrics Deployed in Cyberspace

External Body Features Viewed as ‘What We Are’

Additional References

For Achieving Solid Digital Identity on Information Security Buzz (Mar/2021)

What We Know for Certain about Authentication Factors

Digital Identity for Global Citizens

Image-to-Code Conversion by Expanded Password System

Summary and Brief History — Expanded Password System

Proposition on How to Build Sustainable Digital Identity Platform

Account Recovery with Expanded Password System

History, Current Status and Future Scenarios of Expanded Password System

Negative Security Effect of Biometrics Deployed in Cyberspace

Removal of Passwords and Its Security Effect

Availability-First Approach

Update: Questions and Answers — Expanded Password System and Related Issues

< Videos on YouTube>

Slide: Outline of Expanded Password System (3minutes 2seconds)

Digital Identity for Global Citizens (10minutes — narrated)

Demo: Simplified Operation on Smartphone for consumers (1m41s)

Demo: High-Security Operation on PC for managers (4m28s)

Demo: Simple capture and registration of pictures by users (1m26s)

Slide: Biometrics in Cyber Space — “below-one” factor authentication

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Hitoshi Kokumai

Advocate of ‘Identity Assurance by Our Own Volition and Memory’, Inventor of Expanded Password System and Founder of Mnemonic Identity Solutions Limited in UK.