In the US everyone has a social security number. Is US a nazi country? stop villifying every attempt to make India a progressive and successful country with your old fashioned and lazy arguments
In the US everyone has a social security number. Is US a nazi country? stop villifying every attempt to make India a progressive and successful country with your old fashioned and lazy arguments
Dear Mr. Gopal Krishna, why do you wish to take this up, when there are so many urgent and important issues that are literally burning India? All in the name of privacy for a population of 110 crores and that too in a culture like ours.
If you really wants to do something, take up issues which will really make a difference to our society, we seriously lack social leaderhsip, do something there not take up petty things like these.
we have the worst set of corrupt politicos, who will do anything to get their work done. ruchika case is yet to be completed. everyone knows that the dgp was power drunk, and here we have him close to his death bed, and ruchika hasnt got any justice.
we have no faith in the government in this form - let it be ANY party in india. until we have a fair and democratic government (not might is right), we should not have a UID.
they will first say UId is not compulsory, then one of the states or someone will make it compulsory, then everyone else will follow. we'll end up being another china - where any individual's entire life's details, from family history, to bank accounts, to every single bit of informatin will be available to ANYone in power at a tap of a finger.
nilekani has yet to announce any safeguards of information - which is precisely why this is going to be a disaster. security is an afterthought by design.
useless indian dream... should wait for another couple of years when a scam of uid will feature... no food to eat...wtf is an avg indian going to do with uid...
Re: uid...
by wizardo id on Feb 22, 2011 03:08 PM
yeah, having yet another ID will not help if the delivery is effed up! 12% is the actual delivery out of the whole pie. its the same everywhere. "administrative" costs eat up 80% of sports money, can you beat that ? no wonder sports is languishing in india. its the same in all branches. the fence eats the crop
This is most amount of fear mongering that I have heard in the longest time.
His comparison of the history of the Social Security with the Nazis is fear mongering at its peak. He does not mention the present uses and advantages of the US. Why not? Would it not make the debate more serious than the empty rhetoric he has presented?
Why is increasing security a bad thing in country where bombs have exploded in markets, railway stations, places of worships killing thousands of children, men and women? The man is comfortable knowing that it so easy to get a fake id or a passport and then be misused by people and exploited by criminals.
Gopal is aware that people already have a range of identity proof such as a ration card, pan card or a drivers license. Are those forms of state surveillance too? Should we launch a movement to eradicate the ration card?
On a comic note he is fine with people having 15 identity of proofs, ofcourse. Why should we increase efficiency and minimize losses by switching to one common identity proof and slowly phasing out the rest?
The one valid point Gopal makes is his reference to the KPMG report which highlights that UID will boost the government's ability to monitor people to boost national security. This aspect has not been highlighted by the government and should be debated. The only serious point in his interview is lost in all the fear mongering. Let there be a mature conversation about UID which is passionate, informative, sensibl
Re: Unfortunate rhetoric
by wizardo id on Feb 22, 2011 03:07 PM
you are not taking into account our pathetic record for individual rights. tell me how many years has the ruchika case dragged on for ? what stops our mafia like politicians from having complete control over the individual's info ? you and me can fight the goons by beter information access and also knowing our rights. but 90% of the country just suffers quietly. how many times have the politicos stopped entire traffic just so that they can go - on a daily basis! only mafic and politicians can convert agricultural land into commercial land - for anyone else its a nightmare. most colleges are run by politicians and there's not a damn thing you can do about fees reduction.
hmmf and you dismiss valid concerns of people ? I will believe security that's meant to protect people, not the politicians and babus.
