‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances

Re:‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Foo... by saagarjha on Saturday April 07, 2018 @06:38PM (#16783437)

I'm not sure I quite understand how this is going to fight corruption. How are you going to track money that's being moved illegally? Presumably, nobody is going to be doing this under their Aadhaar card; it's all going to be in cash. Plus, how would you even access Aadhaar card information to audit this? Are you going to call up the government and ask for them to check Modi's card to make sure he hasn't been stealing money?

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Re:‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Foo... by fma on Saturday April 07, 2018 @09:16PM (#16784004)

Can't be all cash...so that helps.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/09/business/india-bans-large...

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Re:‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Foo... by blackoil on Saturday April 07, 2018 @10:33PM (#16784285)

It is still all cash. Govt. removed 1000 INR note, only to introduce a 2000 INR note. This was done as a surprise move under foolish assumption that people hoarding black money, would lose all and we'll get a fresh start. Naturally people being smarter then government, found ways to transfer it all taking 5-10% in laundering charges.

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Re:‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Foo... by GordonS on Sunday April 08, 2018 @11:01AM (#16786402)

Can you elaborate on how laundering it was possible? Genuinely interested.

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Re:‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Foo... by blackoil on Sunday April 08, 2018 @01:39PM (#16787202)

1. One the day demonetization was announced at 8PM, all jewelers were open till till 12 and sold gold with post dated delivery.

2. Till next few days, most retailers were doing backdated bills for large ticket items.

3. In India lot of people didn't had bank a/c. To allow them to convert old currency, people were allowed to convert cash upto 4k INR, by just showing any ID. Bank managers used stash of IDs they had collected over years, to convert huge amount of cash to new notes.

Apart from this, local mafia used millions of poor to get the cash converted. These are common and publicly known methods.

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Re:‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Foo... by thewhitetulip on Sunday April 08, 2018 @02:24AM (#16784903)

It is nothing short of stiffling voice of dissent. This is what China did a few years back when they started considering social media account's "rating" in yiur "citizen rating"

They don't need to put people in bars these days, they need to make life hell for the dissenters so they either leave the nation or be quiet.

The big brother in 1984 did exactly this but thr govts these days are going a step ahead.

You won't believe how many brainwashed "bhakts" tell me how great Modiji is, but they can't justify their claim. It is because of these things that the givt gets away.

Plus the SC has refused to acknowledge govt's stance that adhar reduces corruption. A new judge transfer is coming soon, now that the verdict is going to be against the dictator!

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