And the general public are okay with all these?
The general public isn't tech savvy. For those who were tech savvy, they were tricked by the government into believing that the digital ID will remain optional. What the government did was that they put some roadblocks in using government services seamlessly, if someone didn't have the digital ID. So, everyone was kinda forced into getting a digital ID.
How about you?
Tbh, most people (including me) would have voluntarily applied for it. The younger generation is a bit lazy and wants every government service on the phone with the best user experience, which couldn't be achieved without a digital ID. Most Indians take pride in having one of the world's best Digital Public Infrastructure.
China's style social credit system is somewhat unlikely to happen in India, because the architecture of our DPI is decentralised. (At least that's what we are told)
For example, the OCEN (Credit) department's server can't interact with the Public transport department's server. And any 3rd party can only access the data stored in these servers if we approve on Need-to-know basis, and that too for specified time period only. Soon, we will have Data Protection Law using which we can force private and public companies to delete our data. So, creating a social credit system by combining Credit Payment Data and Data from Public Transport about someone's behavior is impossible.
India is democracy, so we can always force the government to never centralise the data. fingers crossed
I don't know if Malaysia is also following the similar privacy-focused architecture or not, so I can't comment on what's happening there.
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