India may soon see Aadhaar-based checks becoming routine at hotels, housing societies as UIDAI prepares to launch a new offline verification app.

This is Dystopian AF!

For those who don’t Aadhar is a govt ID card for its citizens that doesn’t do shit, is unsecured like shit, and doesn’t even prove anything about you in legal terms.

  • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
    13·
    15 hours ago

    The system will also use something called “proof of presence” that will authenticate a user through face scan without connecting to UIDAI servers. How this will work in reality is something that will be clear only once the new system rolls out and people start using it.

    Well that sounds like a privacy nightmare.

    • sonofearth@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      8·
      15 hours ago

      Cherry on top, the country is extremely tech illiterate and any form of protest will directly land you in prison on the grounds of terrorism w/o a fair trial.