On 11/26/2011 11:24 AM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: > 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. > >
Wasn't that system only meant for non-whites? -- Freedom is a shared resource. Take some, leave the rest for others. Please trim your replies. Avoid cross posting to other lists. Post your replies below the relevant original text, leaving a line space. Regards, Rony. http://ronybill.blogspot.com/ -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
