Also, experiences from India, from other places, also shows that what used to be considered leviathan-like moves, ID cards and things like that, once tested in court and when other jurisdictions also think deep and hard about it, of how to expand the social sector capability to oversee this kind of expanded state capability. It also opens the corridor leftward, in that what seems like an authoritarian move could ultimately be checked and balanced, and maybe moved back into the civic tech framework world.

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