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Bill Gates is a big fan of Aadhaar: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Heroes-in-the-Field-Nandan-Nilekani https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Heroes-in
by mhb 8y ago
Bill Gates is a big fan of Aadhaar:
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Heroes-in-the-Field-Nandan-Nilekani https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Heroes-in-the-Field-N...
- plinkplonk 8y agoEasy to be a fan when all the harm falls on other people on the other side of the world.
- edge17 8y agoAlso easy to be a critic when the harm falls on other people on the other side of the world. There is a cost to inaction as well.
- _jgdh 8y agoHi. I'm an Indian saddled with an Aadhaar account. Am I allowed to be a critic?
- sbmthakur 8y agoCertainly. It's a free country after all. There's already an army of "critics" in Indian Supreme Court who want Aadhar to be thrown into the bin under Article 21.
- kamaal 8y agoIt won't happen any time soon or even ever. There are already talks of a Universal Basic Income by two major parties. They need this kind of infrastructure to roll out their scheme soon. In short it will be mostly activist rage on Twitter, and beyond that nothing much actually.
- intended 8y agoRemember: privacy invasion is always ok when no ones dying. When it gets that far, then anonymous comments online disappear.
- sbmthakur 8y agoIt solved some problems. I had a lot of trouble opening my NPS account without Aadhar.
- shard972 8y ago> Thanks to the work Nandan is doing the world is moving closer to the day when everyone will have access to an official ID So II guess this is mission accomplished? /s
- godelmachine 8y agoHe's a friend of Nandan Nilekani, that's why
- KorematsuFred 8y agoBill Gates in past has supported horrible centralized mechanisms like Common Core. People like Bill Gates do not fully understand countries like India and their knowledge solely comes from "Intellectual Yet Idiots"[1]. [1] https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577 https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...
- Dravidian 8y agoThat's because Skype is soon becoming the defacto VoIP for Indian govt communication & guess what's the authentication? Yup Aadhaar! More over Azure is the cloud storage provider for all govt data moving forward. So not only Billgates would support Aadhaar, NSA & every party benefiting out of privacy abuse would.