Originally Posted By alexbook ...in India. Can you imagine how Americans would respond to this sort of thing? (Then again, this could be USA Today's idea of an April Fool's Day prank. I'm notoriously gullible.) >>India's census to include photos, fingerprints By Anupam Nath, AP Today, as Americans face a U.S. Census deadline to answer 10 questions, India began a gigantic exercise to count its estimated 1.2 billion people and to fingerprint and photograph every citizen over the age of 15. The information will go into a National Register of Citizens, with each person eventually issued a Unique Identity Number, the Times of India reports. First up is President Pratibha Patil, who will share such details as number of mobile phones, computer, toilets and internet connections in the President's House, the newspaper says. There's more: the government wants information on literacy, fertility, mortality, language, religions and migration. The mammoth project will stretch over 11 months, as 2.5 million census workers first collect basic housing data before beginning the physical counting of people in February 2011.<< <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/04/india-begins-census-that-will-include-photos-and-fingerprints-of-all-adults/1" target="_blank">http://content.usatoday.com/co...adults/1</a>
Originally Posted By A Happy Haunt When will they be installed camera in private homes? This is just too much.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Wouldn't it be worth it if it helped keep crime rates down or helped in some way like that?
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 The title of this thread made me think it was another wacked out Michelle Bachmann conspiracy theory about the census
