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2931 - UID/Aadhaar, a medicine possibly worse than the disease -Money Life


UID/Aadhaar, a medicine possibly worse than the disease -Money Life
Moneylife Foundation’s seminar on
MONEYLIFE DIGITAL TEAM | 12/01/2013 04:07 PM

The Aadhaar project was supposed to eliminate corruption in welfare schemes and provide the poor with an identity. It is now, however, clearly spreading into areas that dangerously intrude into our lives and rights. Read on to find out why Col (retd) Matthew Thomas believes Aadhaar to be conceptually flawed, deceitfully promoted, dangerously structured and ignorantly applied


At the 148th seminar of Moneylife Foundation, Colonel (retd) Matthew Thomas, a former defence services officer and missile scientist turned civic activist, spoke on the evils of the Aadhar project. Through the seminar, he explained why Aadhaar is a dangerous tool that is in the hands of people who are unknown, urged participants to question why the project was for residents and not for citizens and questioned the purpose of a national identity card, even as developed nations are doing away with biometrics. The UK National ID system, for example, was scrapped in 2009 when it was called the “worst of government, leading to intrusive bullying and an assault on personal liberty”. In Australia, too, the Australia card was scrapped in 2006.


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