Re:‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Foo...
by shripadk on Saturday April 07, 2018 @05:53PM
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You can also view it in the context that the previous AG wasn't working in government interest. In fact, there was a hue and cry about removal of the previous AG by Dr. Subramanian Swamy in the 2G scam case: https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/subrama...
Re:‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Foo...
by incompatible on Saturday April 07, 2018 @09:53PM
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The "terrorists" argument always seems like a big red herring in these discussions. But it's an interesting point that if the government decides you are a "terrorist", which maybe they can do without you ever being convicted of anything, you can be shut out of much of society by being deprived of I.D.
On the other hand, somebody the government doesn't suspect can simply sign up for I.D. like anybody else and carry out an attack at their convenience.
The AG has argued in court that mobile linking is to prevent terrorists from getting Aadhaar. This is on top of the weird order that DoT issued: https://www.huffingtonpost.in/chitranshul-sinha/no-the-supre...
(tl;dr: DoT quotes a Supreme Court ruling which questioned the government on KYC-norms for telecom industry, which the DoT conveniently reworded to mean "Aadhaar"-only)