It could be and then some...
Could a semi-Orwellian program to collect biometric data for 1.3 billion Indians become a key tool to pulling people out of extreme poverty and integrating them into the global economy? The world’s largest democracy is betting it will, and that it could offer important benefits in poorer countries around the world.
In this case, Big Brother has a name. It is Nandan Nilekani, Indian technology entrepreneur, founder of outsourcing company Infosys, and now chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India - an agency that is collecting fingerprints and iris scans of all Indian residents and assigning them a unique ID number in a massive database on the cloud.
http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/24/could-a-program-tracking-identities-of-1-3-billion-indians-be-the-secret-to-ending-poverty/
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