Program creep. Will the US start with the vaccine passports?
Proposal to Link India’s Aadhar National Identification System to Election System Raises Voter ID, Privacy Concerns
A recent amendment to India’s election laws enables the government to link the “Aadhar” national identification system to voter rolls, raising worries that voter ID may be used for privacy invasion.
The “Unique Identification Authority of India,” Aadhar is essentially a social security tracking system that issues a photo ID card and a 12-digit identifying number to residents of the country. The system is voluntary and technically opt-in, but has been controversial since its inception in 2009 as it has increasingly become linked to a variety of private services such as banking and mobile phone accounts.
… The government says that it wants Aadhar and the voter rolls connected solely for the purpose of checking for voters that have registered more than once by using different polling locations, and to streamline the process of changing the listed residential address after moving. The political opposition, which walked out in protest over the passage of the bill, contends that the end goal is really to expand the Aadhar card to become a required form of voter ID.
You would think they had a definition all could agree to.
Scientists want to call Pluto a planet again — along with 150 other nearby space rocks
… Scientists now want to add every Pluto-like rock floating near our sun to the list of official planets.
… Basically, it means any geologically-complex entity in space can meet the team’s proposed requirements for planetary status.
Phillip Metzger, the lead author on the team’s paper, told NBC News that such a definition would leave us with around 150 planets in our solar system.
This means just about every moon in the solar system, including Earth’s moon Luna, which is about 1/3 larger in diameter than Pluto itself, would be considered a planet.
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