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An official assists a young boy while he places his fingers for fingerprint scan during the enrollment process in Naagaaram village, outskirts of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, India. India is assigning each one of its 1.2 billion people a unique ID number based on digital finger prints and iris scan. Photograph: Sanjit Das/Panos

