alt Hacker NewsThey ll make it mandatory to access critical services at a later point. Tax payments, utility enrollments stuff like that.
That is how they ramped up enrollment in Aadhaar UID.
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I think this point is bit orthogonal. The current outrage was largely because the app has to be pre-loaded and there wasn't an option to disable or uninstall it.
In the later incarnations, if this is an app which you need to access government services that is less of an issue, though I'm not advocating that this is completely fine. There are already apps like these CoWin (during Covid time), or Digiyatra (despite some of the privacy concerns around it [1]) which many are using. I hope if at all this app gets introduced (in the form you mention) there are larger discussions about permissions and the data access the app would need,and it can be disabled, uninstalled.
Exactly! Politics as usual in India.
In a country with dozens government supplied IDs, Aadhaar has been a godsend for the common man. It's one card to open a bank account, buy a SIM card, apply for a loan, enter an airport, or whatever.
I held out for many years due to privacy reasons. In the end, I changed my mind - its just immensely useful to the general public.