This is not going to be elaborate, perspective-sharing type of writing – the title says it all, and I have my reasons to believe that as a nation, digitizing us in a comprehensive way is not a smart choice. The issue has been in my mind for some time now, with all the frenzy around getting your Adhaar Card linked to possibly every bit of ID or official record out there. It seems that the Indian government is trying to create something like an SSN – social security number, which the US has been using for centuries. Still, the Indian way of managing things is very different. For starters, collating all the data under one type of ID is not the smartest thing when you know that the government resources handling all this privacy-maximum data are highly corrupt. The data can provide more avenues to corruption-bred officials who must already be scratching their heads as to how to use this growing wealth of data that will provide them more pasture to arm-twist money from smaller businesses, the ultra-rich, and the tax-conscious middle class, which is now a burgeoning community and is adding financial assets, sometimes succeeding at paying the minimal taxes.