Surveillance concerns as India issues new digital IDs in Kashmir

Surveillance concerns as India issues new digital IDs in Kashmir

In Indian-administered Kashmir, some see the new family IDs as part of a campaign to exert greater control over the residents…University student Mehak is used to frequent identification checks by security forces and officials in Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar and always carries two forms of ID. Soon, she may need to carry yet another in her purse.

 

Surveillance concerns as India issues new digital IDs in Kashmir

Surveillance concerns as India issues new digital IDs in Kashmir