An Indian Dystopia : Big Brother is watching you.

An Indian Dystopia

I recently stumbled upon an interesting article stating that India was getting ready to make a monitoring program which will enable the government to instill a nationalist spirit to the population, neutralize, counteract or anticipate India's adversaries across media and improve India's reputation across the world.

This program would be polyglottal as it would be able to understand many Indian regional languages as well as English, French, Dutch and Mandarin.

The program will pick up information on social media, forums, news wed sites, will stock them and will then put them in three categories (Positive, neutral, negative). And will also be able to identify influencers who will be scrutinized 24/7.

This program would enable the government to take preventive and corrective measures in the event of a crisis which could be detrimental to the government and/or the country.

This isn't the first time India is using technology to monitor its population.

NaMo (the PM's app) is known to collect its user's personal information without their consent and share them with a third party.

This app has been downloaded more than 5M times and is already present on JIO's mobile phones.

Aadhaar which was first launched by the previous government to enable the destitute to access some services and to prevent fraud and corruption, is now used to collected under a unique ID, citizens (Indian and people residing in India longer than 6 months) fingertips, head shots and iris. This service has since become mandatory (under BJP rule) to open a bank account, declare taxes, open a phone line or have an insurance as well as getting for getting welfare, pension or grants.

(SC did reaffirm that the privacy of information was a fundamental right in India under its Constitution).

After what is happening in China where citizens are rated and shamed thanks to a monitoring program (they can even lose their friends as having friends with low rating affects yours) it's not hard to imagine that it has the potential to go haywire even if using technology to take the temperature and controle the social climate is a smart move.

It made me wonder, are there Indian dystopian movies out there? If not : Is it because it's a genre that wouldn't attract audience or because it would be seen as criticizing the country ?

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Originally posted by: nigahen

India makes love stories and emotional stories only. Others don't find an audience.

But Big Brother is watching. Search for some item and then every second page will show that item ads.

And media is still trying hard someway to scuttle the internet because social media is blowing the lid off lies.