Citizenship by Algorithm

How India’s biometric ID system turned the promise of social welfare into a tool of mass surveillance and disenfranchisement.

Illustration by Jan Robert Dünnweller.

For Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, technology and democracy go hand in hand. Modi, who once dubbed his country the “mother of all democracies,” recently offered up India to world leaders as “an ideal testing lab for solutions.” But one of the technologies he touts isn’t a new app or smartphone — it’s the largest, most sophisticated […]

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