tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19649274.post4453043039273832629..comments2024-03-27T17:16:12.789+05:30Comments on The Leap Blog: The controversy about Aadhaar as a money billAjay Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835842741008200034noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19649274.post-16310687490269141142016-03-20T23:32:59.988+05:302016-03-20T23:32:59.988+05:30This bill legitimizes the stereotyping of the poor...This bill legitimizes the stereotyping of the poor as lesser citizens, who have to forego privacy for national security. Apparently if you are rich, you are entitled to better privacy and automatically considered outside the purview of those concerned about national security.<br /><br />The problem is, economists like Ajay Shah and his proteges who are engaged with make government work better have little regard for the democratic processes, which they believe are making it "inefficient". So they actively abet legal sophistry that furthers their utopian visions of efficient government and trade their credibility to questionable legislations that intentionally short-change concerns of equity and effectiveness. <br /><br />Clearly, Ajay Shah and his proteges know that that bill allows collection of genetic material. He just would like to not talk about it. As an academic, he is immune to the messy realities of implementation and clearly cares little about the lack of privacy protections. By suspending ethical judgements, he may be earning himself privileged positions in the Government circles and World Bank, by shilling for Aadhaar. But long after their questionable economic research is forgotten, they will be remembered in books on history of science as technology as the latest perpetrators of administrative evil and moral inversion. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com