[sreejithr]

I don't see any "oppression" here. All governments have personal data on its citizens. This is a fact of life. So far, the Aadhar data has been used for the benefit of society (like targeted assistance to people who deserve aid during Covid rather than doing "spray and pray")

[OutOfHere]

> the Aadhar data has been used for the benefit of society

That's a partial view into it. It's also required for getting basic things that have nothing to do with the government, e.g. a cell phone number, and this is an example of the oppressive problem with it.

[yapyap]

Making life difficult till you eventually do get one is a pressure technique to get everyone to conform to whatever it is you’re trying to impose.

Not sure what the right term’d be but it isn’t good nevertheless.

[eldaisfish]

are you aware of the sale of Aadhar biometric data on the internet? There have been so many leaks at this point that it is borderline funny.

In good faith, how can you look at that and say that Aadhar data has been used for the benefit of citizens?

Despite often being "not mandatory", reality will disagree with you.

[sreejithr]

I’d say implementation issues shouldn’t influence our decision on whether an identity credential is fundamentally required or not for the country.