I'm Indian, I've looked at it from an Indian perspective and plain logic tells me this is insane.
Heck leave alone our country men and their talent at finding loopholes or the corruption of our system.
When I know first hand that the debate internally amongst the world bank and nandan nilekani went from trying to tackle the privacy issues to "my role is to give every Indian a number" (second hand quote) my hair stands on end.
Not to mention that the system already creates duplicates and overlaps, which then compound which each subsequent generation.
Or the fact that we already have bad data from outsourcers who just jammed info into the system, or the fact that the laptops were stolen. I think we lost data recently too.
Heck leave alone our country men and their talent at finding loopholes or the corruption of our system.
When I know first hand that the debate internally amongst the world bank and nandan nilekani went from trying to tackle the privacy issues to "my role is to give every Indian a number" (second hand quote) my hair stands on end.
Not to mention that the system already creates duplicates and overlaps, which then compound which each subsequent generation.
Or the fact that we already have bad data from outsourcers who just jammed info into the system, or the fact that the laptops were stolen. I think we lost data recently too.
This is just a bad idea.