Thanks, Snehashish, A responsible officer of ECI told me that the rolls are published in the open so that people can detect fraudulent entries in their neighbourhood and lodge a complaint so that bogus registrations can be removed. That stands to reason. But the threat to security is also considerable.
What, do you feel, is the way to tackle this? Best wishes, Milind Khadilkar On Thursday, October 9, 2014 6:58:53 AM UTC+5:30, snegho wrote: > > 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 <mygo...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > 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+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> 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.
