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The arguments raised in favor of this motion, sound reasonable and applicable here in the West as well. > "Rohatgi contended that the right over one's body was

by whack 10y ago

The arguments raised in favor of this motion, sound reasonable and applicable here in the West as well. > "Rohatgi contended that the right over one's body was not absolute as the law prohibited people from committing suicide and women were barred from terminating their pregnancy at an advanced stage. Had there been absolute right then people would have been free to do whatever they wanted to do with their body, but the law did not recognise the absolute right of people over their bodies, he contended."

Barrin92 10y ago
shouldn't even be controversial, more extreme examples are organ trade, completely unregulated drug use, self-harm, prostitution in some countries among other things.
manquer 10y ago
Equating suicide to a flimsy ID program, meant to track everything you do is disingenuous. There is zero transparency on the security of the system. Even if there was transparency, I would not trust the people running the system to store my private biometric data safely. Unlike a password which gets leaked i cannot change fingerprint or retina at will can I ? Using it authentication is just stupid . There is no real need for collecting forcibly collecting bio-metric data, This is a question of fundamental right to privacy , despite whatever the court and government may have you believe . Just like the government does not have the right to capture nude pictures of you , it does not any inherent right to your biometric information .
- whack 10y ago
  I'm not sure who your comment is addressed towards, because I didn't say anything about ID programs. If you want to make an argument in favor of privacy, then make an argument in favor of privacy. But that argument has nothing to do with "absolute rights over your body".
  - manquer 10y ago
    My apologies, it was not in reply to your comment directly, I was talking about how the media and entire story about this is being framed as something it is not about at all. Your comment was on top and I did not articulate it well that the issue should be discussing something else entirely. As another poster below summed it better than me, the framing is conflating forced bio-metric collection without any real use , security or benefit with some very real and needed restrictions on your rights over your body
- mdekkers 10y ago
  ...is disingenuous $government_initiative also, asinine

by whack 10y ago

Barrin92 10y ago

shouldn't even be controversial, more extreme examples are organ trade, completely unregulated drug use, self-harm, prostitution in some countries among other things.

manquer 10y ago

Equating suicide to a flimsy ID program, meant to track everything you do is disingenuous. There is zero transparency on the security of the system. Even if there was transparency, I would not trust the people running the system to store my private biometric data safely. Unlike a password which gets leaked i cannot change fingerprint or retina at will can I ? Using it authentication is just stupid . There is no real need for collecting forcibly collecting bio-metric data, This is a question of fundamental right to privacy , despite whatever the court and government may have you believe . Just like the government does not have the right to capture nude pictures of you , it does not any inherent right to your biometric information .

whack 10y ago
I'm not sure who your comment is addressed towards, because I didn't say anything about ID programs. If you want to make an argument in favor of privacy, then make an argument in favor of privacy. But that argument has nothing to do with "absolute rights over your body".
- manquer 10y ago
  My apologies, it was not in reply to your comment directly, I was talking about how the media and entire story about this is being framed as something it is not about at all. Your comment was on top and I did not articulate it well that the issue should be discussing something else entirely. As another poster below summed it better than me, the framing is conflating forced bio-metric collection without any real use , security or benefit with some very real and needed restrictions on your rights over your body
mdekkers 10y ago
...is disingenuous $government_initiative also, asinine