[Reader-list] News Items posted on the net on Multipurpose National Identity Cards-118

[Jeebesh]

On 29-May-09, at 6:03 PM, Taha Mehmood wrote:

> That its security value will overshadow the MNIC’s more benign use
> leads to another worry — the possible misuse by an overbearing
> security apparatus. It is one thing for a national identity card to
> help prevent terror attacks, quite another for permanent check points
> to insist that crossers produce ID cards as a matter of routine. There
> is a fine line between a well-policed state and, well, a police state.

The last line of this editorial from Indian Express confirms the  
general disquiet that MNIC will produce as it becomes more and more a  
reality.

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jeebesh