Something I read today:
http://www.medianama.com/2014/05/223-modak-marketing-election-voter-india/
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Dear Gautam,
Thank you. This is very interesting. I wrote a piece on this issue right
after the failed Google-ECI deal in February http://goo.gl/e9Xea0
The UK approach seems to be a good one. In UK there are two voter lists -
full list and edited list. You can choose to be removed from the edited
As a follow-up to this discussion:
electoralsearch.in began to implement rate limiting and selective IP
blocking yesterday. Sad as this is for my own research purposes, I
welcome the step from a privacy point of view...
Raphael
On 11.04.2014 10:56, Chandrashekhar Raman wrote:
Raphael, To
Hi Devdatta and Avinash,
yes, I, too, am frankly surprised at the ease with which one can access
sensitive data in bulk. Not only PDF rolls and voter details, but also
things such as land records, BPL lists, and much more - I think we are
in an exciting as well as dangerous phase of fairly
Leaving aside my earlier comment as perhaps tongue in cheek, the
electoral rolls are *meant* to be public. The Registration of Electors
Rules, 1960 makes that clear. However, your larger point is well made.
Maybe what needs to be done is to *de-centralise* the storage? That
fulfils the
Raphael, you raise very pertinent issues.
We as a community love open data and in this country there is a lot that
can be done to free all kinds of data so that it can be made use of in a
good way (election data in an aggregated form is one example). But at the
same time there are certain kinds
Hi Gautam
I dont think the issue is with having the electoral roll available publicly
per se. personally, i think its better that the rolls are available in the
open, as compared with the alternative, where it is confidential, thus
leaving it open to other types of abuses.
But i do think that
Chandrashekhar,
just on the specific issues of targeting communities, which I have
thought about a great deal (my first book was on post-2002 Gujarat), my
tentative conclusion is this:
The fact that electoral rolls had been used in the past in riots before
they were available online shows that
Raphael, To clarify, i am not trying to make a case against availability of
fine grained data, far from it i'm with you on this argument among others
that are made spuriously to restrict access. I might have stretched the
point but then again - killing is just one extreme form of discrimination -
Hi,
I found this interesting article by a guy who downloaded and processed the
Voter list of Delhi: https://medium.com/p/1aff55526881
I found this via a discussion on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22pn8u/i_wrote_a_few_simple_python_scripts_to_retrieve/
I'll like to quote
Not sure this is a flaw. Maybe it's a feature? :D
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