26 Nov
2011
26 Nov
'11
6:34 a.m.
2011/11/26 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) raju@linux-delhi.org:
In 1906, an Indian was put into jail for resisting a Government's efforts to issue biometric (fingerprint) identity cards to his nation. Incidentally, it was his first experience of jail (he had many more later).
That was a different issue. It was about issuing IDs specifically to Asian migrants. National ID is issued to all residents of country without discrimination.
In a perfect world, ID would be issued only to "legitimate" residents.