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77 - Jayant Bhandari: The Empire Strikes Back

Watchman Privacy

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The Future of Crime

The largest government biometric identity database in the world is run by the Indian government. The project known as Adhar is an ambitious attempt to fingerprint, photograph and capture iris scans on the nation's 1.2 billion citizens. You can get fake Adhar card by paying money. Every public servant in India takes bribes. So this isn't really working. Thankfully it isn't working because of the dysfunctionality of India, because of the venality of India. But it is a truly Orwellian scheme to tyrannize people and to force people to give away their private lives.

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