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Aadhar is nothing like SSN. I wish it was. SSN doesn’t require biometrics — Aadhar takes fingerprints and iris scans. School kids don’t need SSNs to sit for their school boards. You can sit for university exams without SSNs. You can shop at Amazon without giving them your SSN[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15796242

In fact SSN use has become more restricted over time, thanks to various pieces of privacy legislation. Meanwhile in India they still don’t have any privacy legislation last I checked, so it’s open season on your data.

Aadhar is ambitious all right — an attempt to assign every every Indian resident a number and use that number as a unique key for almost everything (public or private). The surveillance opportunities this presents is breathtaking.

Of course the good folk at India Stack love this because it enables them to build better apps. Move fast and break things, indeed.

[n_t]

watch this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus) and tell me if SSN is good for even US?