Hi, This is typical FUD (fear-uncertainty-doubt) spreading article that takes way too many liberties. I glanced through the TAG-UP report (http://finmin.nic.in/reports/tagup_report.pdf) on which this article is based.
Some of the conclusions of the article are laughable, specially when it says "The UIDAI will be a business entity, governed by the Companies Act; not bound by a law that will recognise the fiduciary role of the state..." Now, how does the writer conclude this?! The report says, government should outsource more IT (which it is already doing via NSDL and other such PSUs) and create a framework to create such (Information Utilities) companies so that the process can be standardised instead of re-inventing the wheel all the time. No where I could find that ownership of personal or biometric data is to be transferred to these entities. Infact there is an entire chapter that talks about privacy issues and how to address them. Interestingly the report talks about using Open Standards and forward looking concepts like crowd-sourcing and self-correcting architectures. There are no doubt concerns about privacy and misuse of data but there are huge benefits too. Its sorry to a high quality publication like the Hindu publish such blatantly one-sided and dishonest articles. best, Rushabh W: https://erpnext.com T: @rushabh_mehta On 21-May-2013, at 12:28 PM, Sumedha Khosla <[email protected]> wrote: > Recently read this article published on "The Hindu". Interesting... > > > http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/your-data-going-on-sale-soon/article4733606.ece > > -- > Sumedha > > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
