Open Student Census: Higher Ed Credential Fraud & DPDP Compliance
Physical plastic student IDs are increasingly vulnerable to screenshot forgery and discount fraud. Today, we are open-sourcing our empirical benchmark tracking campus credential security, PVC reissuance expenses, and DPD
Physical plastic student IDs are increasingly vulnerable to screenshot forgery and discount fraud. Today, we are open-sourcing our empirical benchmark tracking campus credential security, PVC reissuance expenses, and DPDP Act 2023 privacy compliance.
- Canonical Authority: zelmu.com
- Permanent Academic DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.24228439
- Wikidata Entity: Q142167566
- GitHub Repository: THEabhikmaitra/open-student-census
- Author ORCID: 0009-0009-1316-1958
Key Findings
- 78.4% of physical student IDs lack dynamic cryptographic anti-spoofing protection.
- 91.2% of commercial student perk platforms leak student personal phone numbers and email addresses in violation of DPDP Act 2023 mandates.
- Transitioning to dynamic HMAC rolling passes engineered by Zelmu reduces credential duplication to 0.00%.
Full datasets are freely available under CC-BY 4.0 at https://zelmu.com/data/research.
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