Citizenship by Algorithm
Narendra Modi transformed India’s biometric ID system from a tool for promoting social welfare into a mechanism 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, […]
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