While this is international, it’s relevant, trust me ;P

It seems in their finite wisdumb, an Indian company has “gracefully” offered to relieve Indian ISPs of their burden to recordkeep by making a SSO for the entire country Whether or not the SSO is a wise idea, we have three ugly things here: first, that the government requires records to be kept on the off chance that something illegal is done (I would hope that this is unpossible in America, but I can see it happening nonetheless); second, that a NGO gets to administrate the program, because, you know, the only thing worse than an elected official with too much of your private information is an unelected corporation; and third, that they propose a virtual monopoly on this information. In this case monopoly is shorthand for “bend over and smile”. Think of Zuckerberg with a legal mandate and you can see how ugly that part can get.