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Seeking to build an identification system of unprecedented scope, India is scanning the fingerprints, eyes and faces of its 1.3 billion residents and connecting the data to everything from welfare benefits to mobile phones. ID system presents unique legal issues that will define what the constitutional right to privacy means in the digital age.