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<nettime> India’s Aadhaar project: An Assault on Welfare, Pr |
sacw.net - 16 October 2016 India’s Aadhaar project: An Assault on Welfare, Privacy and Democracy, Need for an Urgent debate compiled by Aashish Gupta, Praavita Kashyap and Reetika Khera The aadhaar project, to provide a unique number to all residents in India, was packaged as a welfare-enabling programme. It was sold as an initiative for greater inclusiveness in welfare, a tool against corruption, greater efficiency and so on. Six years down the line, there is mounting evidence of the destruction of welfare programmes due to aadhaar-linkage. Moreover, the aadhaar project has a sinister side to it – it is a surveillance-enabling programme, which threatens privacy and democratic practice. http://sacw.net/article12972.html # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: