New Delhi insists biometric data is fully safe and secure.
Why should the people trust this is the case? If hackers were able to break
into the UID system with such ease or an insider was able to sell the data
undetected, either way it has been made clear the government has no real
operational system control let alone security.
It is hardly shocking the Modi administration wants to link
the government database with the private financial and service sector, thus
subjecting personal date to financial exploitation... and ultimately a
pervasive totalitarian control mechanism.
It's no secret the private sector does a better job at data
collection and analysis than the government and thus the government both in
nations like India and the West continue to work toward appropriating the tools
of the private sector. Recently Google acknowledged that it had provided data
to the US government which was utilised in its drone programme. From banking to
social media, medical records to phone data and home audio-video feeds the
government (via private sector proxies) is gathering every bit of data it get
it hands on.
And they're working on the processors and algorithms to turn this
data into a usable commodity.
I contend India is a test case. A large country with over a
billion people, India cannot realistically control or even monitor the whole of
its society. Large regions of the country are beyond the control of the central
government. But that's not the point.
The chaos in the case is ideal for experimentation. Indian
society is too fragmented to challenge the central government. India of course
is not analogous to the West but it is growing more Western by the day and its
business and technology sectors are connected to the West and its industries.
Much can be learned and you can be sure Western analysts and intellectuals are
taking notes.
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