‘Big Brother’ In India Requires Fingerprint Scans For Food, Phones And Finances

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: Can you believe this? Of course you can. We live in the last days of this age of flesh. This is not the Mark of the Beast, that mark is spiritual in nature, though it will have very real physical consequences. Nevertheless, this should get your attention. The people there are being forced into a new economic system and if they refuse, they are pushed outside of its bounds.

Seeking to build an identification system of unprecedented scope, India is scanning the fingerprints, eyes and faces of its 1.3 billion residents and connecting the data to everything from welfare benefits to mobile phones.

Civil libertarians are horrified, viewing the program, called Aadhaar, as Orwell’s Big Brother brought to life. To the government, it’s more like “big brother,” a term of endearment used by many Indians to address a stranger when asking for help.

For other countries, the technology could provide a model for how to track their residents. And for India’s top court, the ID system presents unique legal issues that will define what the constitutional right to privacy means in the digital age.

Source: ‘Big Brother’ in India Requires Fingerprint Scans for Food, Phones and Finances – The New York Times

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One thought on “‘Big Brother’ In India Requires Fingerprint Scans For Food, Phones And Finances

  1. They’ll get away with that here too, as soon as people are hungry enough.

    Plenty of food for your hungry family….. as soon as we get everyone fingerprinted.

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