In a previous HN discussion about 1.5 years ago[1], someone justified Aadhaar with a 'meta question': "how is a nation state supposed to provide unique identity

In a previous HN discussion about 1.5 years ago[1], someone justified Aadhaar with a 'meta question': "how is a nation state supposed to provide unique identity authentication". I think about that sometimes, because the way this ID was being linked to Indian citizens, based on the threat of everything from our bank accounts to our phones being shut off otherwise, didn't feel very philosophical and meta. This tragedy with the vaccine refusal is another example of how normalizing authoritarian ID systems can harm people. (Facial recognition being used during the protests in Hong Kong is another salient example.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16781301 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16781301