Hi Milind, In the past, I have written about this issue. See, http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/electoral-databases-2013-privacy-and-security-concerns
Also see, Ocean Project http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/research/ocean/ Best, Snehashish On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Emkay <mygov...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > The voters list contains household data that provides name, gender, age > and relationship information for all members of the household, as well as > the address. > This data is available without logging in and without agreeing to > limitations on use. > Isn't this against Privacy Rules 2011/ IT Act 2008, at least in principle? > > I have come across companies using this data for targeted marketing. It > could be put to even worse use. > > Any insights? > Thanks. > > Milind Khadilkar > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > 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 datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- 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 datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.