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Bill Gates is a big fan of Aadhaar: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Heroes-in-the-Field-N...

That's because Skype is soon becoming the defacto VoIP for Indian govt communication & guess what's the authentication? Yup Aadhaar!

More over Azure is the cloud storage provider for all govt data moving forward.

So not only Billgates would support Aadhaar, NSA & every party benefiting out of privacy abuse would.

Bill Gates in past has supported horrible centralized mechanisms like Common Core. People like Bill Gates do not fully understand countries like India and their knowledge solely comes from "Intellectual Yet Idiots"[1].

[1] https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...

Easy to be a fan when all the harm falls on other people on the other side of the world.

Also easy to be a critic when the harm falls on other people on the other side of the world. There is a cost to inaction as well.

Hi. I'm an Indian saddled with an Aadhaar account. Am I allowed to be a critic?

Certainly. It's a free country after all. There's already an army of "critics" in Indian Supreme Court who want Aadhar to be thrown into the bin under Article 21.

It won't happen any time soon or even ever. There are already talks of a Universal Basic Income by two major parties. They need this kind of infrastructure to roll out their scheme soon.

In short it will be mostly activist rage on Twitter, and beyond that nothing much actually.

Remember: privacy invasion is always ok when no ones dying. When it gets that far, then anonymous comments online disappear.

It solved some problems. I had a lot of trouble opening my NPS account without Aadhar.

He's a friend of Nandan Nilekani, that's why

> Thanks to the work Nandan is doing the world is moving closer to the day when everyone will have access to an official ID

So II guess this is mission accomplished? /s

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