[Reader-list] UID CARD Doubts

[Taha Mehmood]

Dear Bipin and Rajen,

Thank you for your responses.

@Bipin-

Every condom pack has a barcode. That barcode uniquely identifies that
condom pack as that condom pack. Similarly bar codes are used for
toothbrushes, fridges and almost every imaginable commodity available.
These bar codes serve a utilitarian purpose.

Do you see no difference between an inanimate condom pack and your own
self Bipin? Do you not have a sense of agency? How can you feel
alright if someone fixes your identity through a twelve digit number?

As Rajen points out, a dog owner can tag his dog. Following Rajen,
could we not assume that an owner of a soap factory has the same
prerogative. So does the owner of a car manufacturing corporation or a
person who owns a drug manufacturing plant.

In other words any person who owns a means of production to
manufacture a commodity is given the right to tag that commodity, by
law so as to ascertain an exact amount of money that he could receive
from the sale of such a commodity.

Do you consider yourself a property of Government of India Bipin? is
it not that WE THE PEOPLE of INDIA collectively own the Government and
the land and all the resources and every thing which is there in this
country?

By collecting the identities of the people of India, is not the
Government trying very hard to fundamentally change the primary
relationship between a collective of Citizens and a machinery of the
State which is run by ITS elected representatives? Who do you think
you will belong to after Mr.Nilekani has done his job? India or
Government of India?

Warm regards

Taha