Re:Aadhaar: Ushering in a Commercialized Era of Surveillance...
by wtmt on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:11PM
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> The whole purpose of the project was to provide means of identification of people that didn't have any kind of document – passport, driving license, etc.
That was just the guise under which it was launched. Aadhaar has been a poorly thought out and poorly implemented solution that's still looking for problems. Responses to RTI (Right to Information) queries have shown that 99.7% of people who enrolled for Aadhaar did so using existing identification documents. Only 0.3% enrolled without identity documents using the "introducer" system. [1]
[1]: http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/very-few-indians-didn-t-...
Identification of people is crucial in regions where some people receive subsidies as ensures it reaches the right people.
It's a shame this platform is being potentially used to violate citizen's privacy. Maybe a EU GDPR-esque regulation would balance the control on where private information is used back to the citizen.