1) india already has a plethora of ID options which were not mandatory and not biometric
2) similar biometric ID programs have been shot down in the US and UK precisely because of the threat to privacy and surveillance
3) a majority of Indians, as you will see even on HN, support such programs. The support is under the same aegis that Chinese citizens defend their firewall - it makes their life better, cost to privacy, threat of surveillance state be damned.
Even more obvious surveillance tools are acceptable and championed by the citizenry.
Such sweeping statements are not sweeping but factual representations of the state on the ground in the second most populous nation in the world.
The only people I know who are now organized and trying to combat it are the IFF.
1) india already has a plethora of ID options which were not mandatory and not biometric
2) similar biometric ID programs have been shot down in the US and UK precisely because of the threat to privacy and surveillance
3) a majority of Indians, as you will see even on HN, support such programs. The support is under the same aegis that Chinese citizens defend their firewall - it makes their life better, cost to privacy, threat of surveillance state be damned.
Even more obvious surveillance tools are acceptable and championed by the citizenry.
Such sweeping statements are not sweeping but factual representations of the state on the ground in the second most populous nation in the world.
The only people I know who are now organized and trying to combat it are the IFF.