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by swaroop 3309 days ago
Aadhaar is one of those programs which is a solution looking for a problem, at huge cost of privacy, security and government surveillance. See https://rethinkaadhaar.in/myths/
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Agreed but even most of the very literate ones does not understand the implication. Everyone is so gung-ho about having a single identity tied back to bio-metric data that highlighting the privacy concerns and historical misuse have no effect.
And its not even historical misuse.

Aadhar has been abused in the present, the government has lied about its purpose over its entire existence and has directly abused SC instructions.

The AG for the govt has gone on and said that Indian's don't have a right to privacy in court, and their numbers don't hold up to scrutiny.

This has all happened in the present, none of what I have said is even exaggeration, it's actually happened.

The iSpirit guy was caught, publicly, creating a troll army to abuse Pro Privacy supporters.

Its insane. Do not expect the people fighting for aadhar to ever stop supporting it.

Aadhar is their hero, it ushers in a new age for India - any one who fights against this new age is misguided at best, or an enemy of progress at worst.

Its absurd.