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India was always a surveillance state in the making, thanks to Aadhaar. The Indian government is now utilizing the crisis to fast-pace the process. Not only a

India was always a surveillance state in the making, thanks to Aadhaar. The Indian government is now utilizing the crisis to fast-pace the process. Not only are they planning to make the contact tracing app registration on new phones mandatory, they're also planning to bring the app to feature phones. Source: Aarogya Setu coming on feature phones; to cover the entire country https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/aarogya-setu-coming-on-feature-phones-to-cover-the-entire-country/articleshow/75493148.cms https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/aarogya-s...

jjgreen 6y ago
Interesting, thanks. "Never let a good crisis go to waste."
sbmthakur 6y ago
Has Aadhaar been used for surveilling people?
- wtmt 6y ago
  Yes, and even for knocking people off of voter lists in Andhra Pradesh.
  - sbmthakur 6y ago
    Any reference for that? Voters list is routinely updated.
aplthxa 6y ago
Would the downvoters care to explain their actions. Aadhaar has been under fire for a long time and this seems like a factual comment. It seems that one cannot criticize India or China on HN.