UID Aadhaar: Making of a Totalitarian Indian Surveillance Society
Biometrics | UID : Turning a ‘Citizen’ into a ‘Subject’ : Usha Ramanathan
Practical RISKS of Aadhaar / UID project
1. HISTORY OF CENSUS AND THE FUTURE WITH UID
The hallmark of a Police State is a compulsory National ID.[UID]
Edward Bernays in his famous book ‘Propaganda’ rightly said
“…The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”
Biometrics | UID : Turning a ‘Citizen’ into a ‘Subject’ : Usha Ramanathan
Practical RISKS of Aadhaar / UID project
1. HISTORY OF CENSUS AND THE FUTURE WITH UID
Watch this detailed and well documented documentary to know the history of Census and the will be future with RFID and UID.
One Mainframe to Rule them All – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dhiKlouSq8
IBM is the same company that came up with the punch cards for census that helped Hitler pull off the Holocaust and the same company creating RFID chips. Interestingly there are thousands of cases against IBM involvement in the Holocaust which never saw the light of day. The company that got the UID contract is also a front controlled by IBM.
2. EUGENICS | ETHNIC CLEANSING
Though Nilekani [having connections with the Yale University, a CIA front and the House of the deadly and notorious "Skull And Bones"] claims that the so-called, UID is a “mere number”, it can be used to do away with Religion, though it is a Fundamental Right.
The following two videos will give you a 30 minute crash course about the huge risk involved in having a centralized database of all people just like a prison database or earmarks in cattle farms. It has good explanation of Eugenics and how it was used in the history.
There are reports of people being murdered for their Identity cards which were also reportedly used in Rwanda for ethnic cleansing.
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3. IMPLICATIONS OF THE CENSUS AND THE METHODS USED
Data collection, including fingerprinting, for the National Population Register has been launched alongside the 2011 Census exercise and under different statutes. This is no innocent data collection in a vacuum. Set amidst NATGRID and UID, it conjures Orwellian images of Big Brother.
Why Nandan Nilekani(UIDAI Chairman) could lose his job ?
Excerpt - He is head of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which is functioning without legislative approval either at the Centre or in the states and has signed contracts with US companies like L1 Identities Solution that works with US intelligence agencies.
An industry document titled ‘Homeland Security in India’ underlines the connection between UID number and National Intelligence Grid (NAGRID). It is public knowledge that NATGRID chief Capt. Raghu Raman, wishes to hand over ‘internal security’ of the country to the ‘commercial czars’ and recommends ‘private territorial armies’ to safeguard ‘corporate empires’.
4. MISUSE OF DATABASE
Commercial motive behind Aadhaar: VS
U.S. interest in Unique Identification Project
Intelligence agencies keen to tap data base
5. PRIVACY & CIVIL LIBERTIES
Does the UID project infringe on privacy?
Smart Cards for Surveillance
Surveillance Architecture, Radio Collar, RFID, PII & UID Number/Aadhaar
6. TURNING THE CONSTITUTION INTO A DEAD DOCUMENT
The UID Aadhaar Project Will Make Constitution Of India A Dead Document By S.G.Vombatkere
“Linked with surveillance in public places and with all people registered with the Aadhaar system, tracking every activity of any or every citizen will be merely a matter of money and technology. This will irreversibly change the relationship between the State and its people, confirming the State as the master when the Constitution of India envisages precisely the opposite.”
7. HIGH-COST | HIGH-RISK
One estimate of the cost to completely roll-out National IDs to all Indian residents above the age of
18 has been placed at [Rs] 150,000 crore (US$33.45 billion).
In this article you will read some history around this project and critical analysis.
Soon government will be able snoop on the personal savings bank and other accounts in the name of anti-terror measures using NAT-GRID
8. AADHAAR: ON A PLATFORM OF MYTHS
The Aadhaar project, just as its failed counterpart in the U.K., stands on a platform of myths. India needs a mass campaign to expose these myths.
Myth 1: Aadhaar number is not mandatory.
Myth 2: Aadhaar is just like the social security number (SSN) in the United States.
Myth 3: Identity theft can be eliminated using biometrics.
9. OPPOSITION TO UID FROM CITIZENS
“Even Prisoners’ Act provides that fingerprints be destroyed after acquittal. In uidai such data can be stored forever.”
- Gopal Krishna, UID Activist
Aadhar, A Few Basic Issues
Red flags raised over possible unique ID profiling fallouts
UK scraps National ID project; Will India’s UID face the same fate?
According to some experts, the least that needs to be done is that UIDAI should make a comprehensive case to justify why what was rejected in the UK is good for India
Documents Explaining What Has Happened To US
UID is an identity crisis in the making
Iraqi Biometric Identification System
10. UID BY STEALTH ?
Nilekani said the number will become “pervasive and ubiquitous” in future. “When you to get a passport, they will say where is your UID number, when you go to get a driving licence, they will say where is your UID number, when you go to pay tax, they will say where is your UID number, you go to open a bank account, they will say where is your UID number. Sooner or later you will have to get your UID number,” Nilekani said.
Oxigen, SBI in tie-up to provide banking solutions to unbanked
Govt to issue biometric PAN cards
Aadhaar is being touted as UNIVERSAL[Meaning Universal Identity Card,UID]. The 12-digit unique number given under Aadhaar will be universal and could be used for all practical purposes.
11. OBEDIENT CASHLESS SOCIETY
Cashless Society: India Implements First Biometric ID Program for all of its 1.2 Billion Residents
After the implementation of UID :
* What are the chances that you can get LPG without being given it to someone else for a day or two by the agency?
* What are the chances that all the PDS shops have UID verification devices?
* If all the PDS shops have UID verification devices what are the chances that the system works when someone wants to buy something?
* What are the chances that electricity outage, telephone/network outage block a person from getting the service?
* What are the chances that the service providers intentionally break the system down to deny the service?
* What are the chances that someone else avail the service in your name and you get trapped in cases which you cannot prove otherwise?
* Schools do collect information regarding religion, caste race, language; Banks collect income information and what are the chances that future generations won’t face another holocaust, forced sterilization or repeat another Rwanda?
* This list will go on based on how well your criminal brain works; but my point is there is nothing much you can expect out of this project other than surrendering your sovereignty and making the State, a more powerful Master.
Nick Clegg, UK’s deputy prime minister said in his speech in British Parliament,
“It is outrageous that decent, law-abiding people are regularly treated as if they have something to hide. It has to stop. So there will be no ID card scheme.”
Late Roger Needham, a British computer scientist, aptly said,
‘If you think IT is the solution to your problem, then you don’t understand IT, and you don’t understand your problem either.