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Don’t fall for this traps. Never trust a government launched projects which try to disguise itself as good for society and turn it into a tool against the citi
by dragonsh 7y ago
Don’t fall for this traps.
Never trust a government launched projects which try to disguise itself as good for society and turn it into a tool against the citizens themselves.
For example India launched Aadhar for having identity of every Indian, but it was not enough now government is working on another project called National Population Register (which started in 2010 before aadhar was available and is unnecessary today), which will be used to issue another identity card and it will be at government discretion to decide who is the citizen of India (survey question for this asks the religion or ethnicity of the person according to rules framed by current government for NPR). It’s controversial and government of India is repeating copy of same statement what aadhar was designed for to determine and provide benefits to Indian citizens.
On the surface Indian government monetary agency says it will be on people’s consent on the other hand Government of India is launching another program to force every details of Indian citizen stored by companies like internet service providers, google, Facebook etc. to be accessible to government agency in India without users consent. Indeed Mozilla launched a campaign in India to get clarity on it, as it is happening in closed corridors of power without Indian citizens consent or knowledge.
Combine whole online history with each and every financial transaction and credit history and give it to government agency. It will lead very quickly to a dystopian world and there are example of governments in world already doing it. China can ban its citizens from travelling, buying daily necessities at a click of a button. USA can imprison anyone for even an unproven offence in many parts of the world like the way an executive arrested in Canada or American citizen kept in Guantanamo without trial or due process.
I hope there is a movement that government should be restricted to serving its citizen instead of ruling and controlling them.
Based on what I have seen so far only rich and powerful with resources thrive in autocracy, communism or democracy, for general citizens any remedy is costly and they will suffer even if may get some relief in the end it might be too late. If government becomes all too powerful as it is happening everywhere in the world now, dystopian world where rich and powerful rule the rest is not far away. (Government trying to become more powerful everywhere these days by taking away privacy rights, asking for unfettered access to financial and daily life, use them to restrict citizens).
- sbmthakur 7y agoNPR will require a lot of demographic information which is currently not present in Aadhar. It doesn't seem completely pointless.