Yeah, I truly wonder when 80 percent of population surviving on less than 2-3 dollars a day why doesn't government just double down on privacy first leaving everything else aside.
Not sure why you are being sarcastic. Being poor doesn’t mean people don’t deserve privacy. In fact it can enable for more business opportunities.
Government doesn’t operate in series on an issue one by one. This is why you have so many ministries in the govt. Just because roads don’t exist doesn’t mean govt should stop building railways and only think of roads.
That's not the point though. Govt can sure enact/enforce tough laws. But poor people just don't care; for a few bucks they will happily part with their IDs and PII info. When demonetisation happened most of the ill-gotten currency made its way to the banking system through poor people's bank account.
In other words, privacy is a luxury that poor people can ill afford. Do poor deserve privacy? Absolutely. But it doesn't take much to get them part with their private data. They are stuck at the lowest level of Maslow hierarchy where as privacy is at least two level above them. Can government do something to protect their privacy? Probably, but I just can't see how it'll be successful when the citizens themselves don't care much about privacy.
I believe that the point the sarcasm meant to address was that poorer people cannot afford to push back and prioritize their privacy the way that folks with more privilege can.
Government doesn’t operate in series on an issue one by one. This is why you have so many ministries in the govt. Just because roads don’t exist doesn’t mean govt should stop building railways and only think of roads.