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India was always a surveillance state in the making, thanks to Aadhaar.

The Indian government is now utilizing the crisis to fast-pace the process. Not only are they planning to make the contact tracing app registration on new phones mandatory, they're also planning to bring the app to feature phones.

Source: Aarogya Setu coming on feature phones; to cover the entire country https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/aarogya-s...




Interesting, thanks. "Never let a good crisis go to waste."


Has Aadhaar been used for surveilling people?


Yes, and even for knocking people off of voter lists in Andhra Pradesh.


Any reference for that? Voters list is routinely updated.




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