> This isn’t about a philosophical position on privacy. It’s about who the government shares our information with, and how it treats us based on what it thinks

> This isn’t about a philosophical position on privacy. It’s about who the government shares our information with, and how it treats us based on what it thinks it knows about us. The article mentions just one incident in India in passing, but whole books could be written on the resident (not citizen) ID scheme and the problems it has created in India. Now there’s a push in India for a new national health ID to help private companies gather more data in a country with no data privacy laws. Unlike the UK where the national ID project was junked a decade ago (as mentioned in the article), in India the story of rights being trampled while an uncaring judiciary spends time on more trivial matters should be a lesson to people in other countries. Keep the fight against mass surveillance on. Times of crisis, like the current pandemic, are great opportunities for governments to push policies that will have long term negative effects. “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty!”