Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia believes that spending $1.3 billion on building Aadhaar was unnecessary especially because the data it collected in the form of biometrics was not being used at all.

Currently heading Arzoo, an e-commerce portal, Sabeer Bhatia is popularly known as the founder of Hotmail that was acquired by Microsoft in 1998. As the President and CEO of Hotmail, he was ...

The Hotmail co-founder, Sabeer Bhatia, called Aadhaar an expensive misstep, claiming that the unique identity project, which reportedly cost $1.3 billion, could have been built for just $20 million.