On Saturday 26 Nov 2011, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: > Now imagine the scenario in the country where Aadhar and Natgrid talk > to each other. Do you think anyone (forget even people like Anna > Hazare) can survive as an independent-thinking and opinion-forming > free and proud individual in such an eventuality? The combination is > exactly what George Orwell predicted in his novel, 1984 - go read the > book too.
At the risk of repeating oneself: In 1906, an Indian was put into jail for resisting a Government's efforts to issue biometric (fingerprint) identity cards to his nation. Incidentally, it was his first experience of jail (he had many more later). Exactly 100 years later, Government of India first mooted a proposal to issue biometric identities to all its residents. What has changed so drastically in one century that we can go diametrically against this earlier pioneer's vision? The name of the Indian was M K Gandhi, and the government that jailed him was South Africa. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathur || [email protected] || GPG: http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
