[rohit2412]

> A biometric ID is as obviously a lynchpin of a surveillance state as the necessity of a unique key to run a database.

That's disingenuous. A government is also a lynchpin for a surveillance state, so you'll support anarchy?

A biometric id is very useful for various purposes. Subsidy targeting, financial inclusion, simplification of various datasets, and cracking down on tax evasion to name a few.