India the Surveillance State and the Role of Aadhaar

 India has been turned into a full-scale surveillance state with the masses under the watchful eye of the government, vulnerable and oblivious to being tracked, profiled, recorded, and registered at every point of their day and entire lifetimes. Invasive technologies like facial recognition are being cavalierly used in public spaces and universities, political and institutional opposition is being stymied through sophisticated surveillance methods like the NSO’s Pegasus spyware (which the Supreme Court itself has largely been unable to get a clear answer on from the government), and the Aadhaar project is proliferating rapidly and being imposed with the full backing of the Aadhaar Act 2016, and is being virtually impossible to escape.