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by klors 1415 days ago
BRICS countries are going to continue the social credit/aadhar route and the West will watch jealously.

This is nothing against China/India etc., I'm sure their populations do not like the direction either.
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eklavya 1415 days ago
How is social credit in PRC in any shape of form comparable to AADHAR (SSN in US)?
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dane-pgp 1414 days ago
"India's dodgy mass surveillance project should concern us all"

"Biometric ID card project Aadhaar links almost every part of a citizen's personal life to a state database"

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/india-aadhaar-biometrics-pri...

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cuteboy19 1414 days ago
It's just a biometric Id system. Europe has one too, its actually very similar to aadhar in scope and usage. In fact the stated reasoning is identical to that of aadhar.

https://blog.hidglobal.com/2021/09/european-union-already-ro...

Though I doubt wired.com would do an article about the draconian European "mass surveillance database".

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