UP twins face Aadhaar trouble after fingerprints and retina scans match
Twin sisters in Uttar Pradesh, India, are facing administrative hurdles with their Aadhaar biometric identification because their fingerprints and retina scans are nearly identical. The issue has caused registration failures for their 10th-grade exams and even confused smartphone face-recognition software.
Why it matters
This highlights the limitations of biometric authentication systems when dealing with identical twins and the potential for bureaucratic exclusion in digital ID systems.
Two Class 10 twin sisters in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, found themselves caught in an unusual Aadhaar problem when the biometric details of one sister were reportedly matched with those of the other. Khijra Zubair and Tuba Zubair, students in Class 10 in Rampur city, had their Aadhaar cards made when they were around four years old. But when they needed to update their Aadhaar details for Class 10 registration, the process did not go as expected. The first sister’s fingerprints and retina were scanned and recorded. When the second sister’s biometric details were entered, the system reportedly matched them with the first sister’s data and treated the second application as a duplicate.
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