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India to issue 1.2 billion new biometric ID cards

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India is preparing to issue biometric identification cards to every one of its 1.2 billion citizens in what is being called "the biggest Big Brother project yet conceived," according to a published report.

This fresh piece of reporting just in from the Times Online:

It is surely the biggest Big Brother project yet conceived. India is to issue each of its 1.2 billion citizens, millions of whom live in remote villages and possess no documentary proof of existence, with cyber-age biometric identity cards.

The Government in Delhi recently created the Unique Identification Authority, a new state department charged with the task of assigning every living Indian an exclusive number. It will also be responsible for gathering and electronically storing their personal details, at a predicted cost of at least £3 billion.

The task will be led by Nandan Nilekani, the outsourcing sage who coined the phrase “the world is flat”, which became a mantra for supporters of globalisation. “It is a humongous, mind-boggling challenge,” he told The Times. “But we have the opportunity to give every Indian citizen, for the first time, a unique identity. We can transform the country.”

If the cards were piled on top of each other they would be 150 times as high as Mount Everest — 1,200 kilometres.

The card will include a computer chip with either a fingerprint or an iris scan, the report says. The card may even be tied to criminal and credit histories. And last, but certainly not least, with just about 7 percent of Indian society registered to pay income tax, this new database of citizens -- potentially the largest ever attempted -- will certainly aid in the government's collection of funds.

-- Stephen C. Webster

11 Responses to “India to issue 1.2 billion new biometric ID cards”

  1. fu india

    fuck you india!


  2. SWED

    lol.. hmm now it's time to research this and verify the F U C K out of it. Like every-f u c k i n g-one should be doing after they absorb anything they hear. And NOT taking it as truth on 'good faith' and falling prey to these f u c knuckles (cleptocracies(governments)).

    Oh, and Religion can eat my asshole. After Taco-Bell..


  3. oversight

    Livestock has ear tags.
    Chickens have leg bands.
    Humans have bio-metric ID.

    One big happy farm.


  4. Max-1

    .

    What...
    ... Why act so surprised?

    When the Harlot set foot on two shores and spilled that bowl, the lion of Islam was let loose across the land where the Tigress and Euphrates meet.

    And he shall be known by the number of the Beast!
    Marked in the forehead(read eyes/retinal scan) and/or hand hand(read prints).

    .


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  6. unhappy camper

    Mark of the beast isnt Retina' or Fingerprint...

    its the Soon to be "RFID CHIPS".. you can youtube it.
    Basically they spent "$1.5million" dollars on research where the best place to inject a chip into you would be..

    turned out it was the forehead or hand (right hand)

    these chips will be swiped and will be you ID, your MONEY, and All ur information..

    but this is AFTER they detain everyone and let "FREE" the 20% chosen to live.. you prolly wont get one... and neither will i


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