Privacy and the State - Aadharr

"The latest: 20 June 2017: https://thewire.in/148687/mandatory-aadhaar-bank-accounts-legality/
The central government recently announced that it shall be mandatory to link Aadhaar numbers to all non-small bank accounts, failing which, access to the bank accounts will be disabled after December 31. This requirement has been brought into the law via Prevention of Money-laundering (Maintenance of Records) (Second Amendment) Rules, 2017 which have been notified by the government under powers delegated to it by the parliament through the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA)."
 

https://thewire.in/136521/aadhaar-omnipresent-state/

I write about matters related to technology and social issues that relate to privacy on one hand and our principle social entities on the other.  Government, Big Business, our Monetary system.

This is an excellent presentation of the issue of personal privacy, people's privacy, vs the institutional entity encroachment on that private privacy for reasons justified by its rights related not to individual people but the nature of rights of individuals being assumed into the body of the greater social institution.  Whichever that institution might be.

There is much food for intelligent examination in the link.

Under laying this matter is perhaps like a shifting of the "Burden of Proof".  Which side has the preponderance of responsibility to prove its case?

The individual?

The institutional entity?

As the institutional entity assumes more of the identity of the individual and associated rights exclusive to an individual person a shift point in the big picture that determines which has by default  the greater power in the framework of society between individual rights and freedom and institution rights and freedom is approached.

The default position of this situation today?

Individual rights that shall not be infringed gives power to the people.

The more our institutions have the standing of individual people they assume the associated rights of people that shall not be infringed upon until.....as a progression of change over time....the balance of the "Biggest Scale" weighing the burden of proof shifts to the Institutional Entity vs The Individual Person.

The driver of that shift is technology of institutional entities that is increasingly gathering information directly related to the individual and the power that that information has to serve the agenda of the institution over that individual that is used to serve itself an its interests as an social entity like a person.

https://thewire.in/131698/before-aadhaar-pan-card-verdict-debate-over-bodily-autonomy-and-living-a-dignified-life/

https://thewire.in/84925/aadhaar-privacy-security-legal-framework/

https://thewire.in/136102/coercion-aadhaar-project-ushar/

That is all taking place in India where maybe the individual never even had the supremacy of freedom and rights over its governance system and protection of that system from other social institutional entities.  Past example: British Empire.

In the USA our big entities are gathering information about individuals that give them greater power contributing to their standing as corporate entities with quasi rights of a person citizen.

http://gizmodo.com/uber-doesn-t-want-you-to-see-this-document-about-its-va-1795151637

Maybe the one thing that makes a corporate social entity, private or public, more like a person is fundamentally what it "knows".  What it knows leads to self awareness. Self awareness is something that is a defining attribute of a human being.