Is that the government up your ass?

India is an identity theft hotbed waiting to happen. International customer data in BPOs will be better protected, but think of the number of places and people who have your phone number, copies of your passport, copies of your driver’s licence, your bank account number etc.. Think of the number of people and places that have access to your date of birth, your place of birth, your mother’s maiden name! Think of all the rights that you have already relinquished because the government wanted every corner shop to have all these details just to give you a mobile phone number!

Bombay will wake up tomorrow and get back to work as usual but things do change. Anand points us to the ‘real’ consequences of such attacks that make the government paranoid and results in citizens losing their civil liberties [hat tip: Madman]. Which is more dangerous, you decide.