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    The Wall Street Journal‏Verified account @WSJ 19 Feb 2017

    India is offering the world’s largest biometric-identity database for use by tech firmshttp://on.wsj.com/2m23B0W 

    5:15 PM - 19 Feb 2017
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    • Omprakash Kumar Daniel R O'Connell Tanya Peter Peh Sik Wee Robinjit_Singh Thomas Jerome Baker Perrik C. Group Maverick Cruz Ranjeet Kumar
    15 replies 91 retweets 75 likes
      1. Nette‏ @nettiesnoggin 19 Feb 2017
        Replying to @WSJ

        Seems like India is at the forefront of scary, intrusive, privacy-eroding, Big Brother govt

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      1. jordan c. fan‏ @jordan_c_fan 19 Feb 2017
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        Those Indian Citizen Biometric are all color coded matching the colors of their turbans!

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      1. aCi11i3s‏ @aCi11i3s 19 Feb 2017
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        beginning of the end...

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      1. Eurozonian‏ @Eurozonian 19 Feb 2017
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        OFFERS "#biometric-id database" of "nearly all of its 1.2 billion citizens". it is not economic stats, it is sensitive personal data! 😮

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      1. Taufik Hussin‏ @taufikhussin 19 Feb 2017
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        huge economic potential by this initiative

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      1. Donn Morgan Kipgen‏ @donn_morgan 19 Feb 2017
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        That's PM Modi hi-tech way of saying"India First"!

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      1. Richard Jasmin‏ @frazzledjazz 19 Feb 2017
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        I smell a hack

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      1. Michael H  🇦🇺‏ @Michael75868157 19 Feb 2017
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        Register those production units, I mean those company assets, oops I mean those cogs in the machine, ah crap, you know what I mean😉

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      1. kate‏ @American4better 19 Feb 2017
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        The worlds need to keep separate bio data for obvious reasons. The technology is great. Outsourcing our info. I don"t think so.

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      1. Shelley‏ @Theshells1111 19 Feb 2017
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        The India experiment has been a inhumane experiment-

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      1. Notaraceorahat‏ @Notaraceorahat1 19 Feb 2017
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        woooooow fascinating

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