I think most of the industrialized world will go through this inevitably, but it's important to remember that liberty is a long term strategy that requires education and diligence. In a way, India is about to prove why biometric data on every citizen is a bad idea. We need to see how such data can be abused to fully understand how dangerous such data is in the wrong hands. Sure tptacek might come on down and tell us how such regulation should be thanked, but we're about to witness a controlled experiment that proves the contrary. My money is on a more controlled extortion apparatus ;)