India Launches Project to ID 1.2 Billion People

India's vaunted tech savvy is being put to the test this week as the country embarks on a daunting mission: assigning a unique 12-digit number to each of its 1.2 billion people.

The project, which seeks to collect fingerprint and iris scans from all residents and store them in a massive central database of unique IDs, is considered by many specialists the most technologically and logistically complex national identification effort ever attempted. To pull it off, India has recruited tech gurus of Indian origin from around the world, including the co-founder of online photo service Snapfish and employees from Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Intel Corp.

The country's leaders are pinning their hopes on the program to solve development problems that have persisted despite fast economic growth. They say unique ID numbers will help ensure that government welfare spending reaches the right people, and will allow hundreds of millions of poor Indians to access services like banking for the first time.

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India is not the only country in the world trying to database its masses. With the majority of its poor population unrecognized in its national databases, i.e. off-the-grid people, it is going to be a challenge.

The very prospect of databasing and cataloging every living person worldwide stinks down to Revelation 13:16-18.

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

See the prophecy being fulfilled today in front of our eyes?

Originally posted by ironfalcon
The very prospect of databasing and cataloging every living person worldwide stinks down to Revelation 13:16-18.

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.

See the prophecy being fulfilled today in front of our eyes?

Nice OP, very interesting, and as any census, or cataloging of the masses, has a potential to be misused.

You lost me a bit there with the scripture though. And no, I don't see this as fulfilling the prophecy. This prophecy gets cited for countless things and everybody seems to twist it to such a variety of things they see as immoral.

Dystopian fiction does a better job prophesising this than the bible does.

RFID seems to fulfill prophecy.

Also if the make it illegal to not have a national id when purchasing one has to have "the number of his name".