Shirish, AFAIK, work of Aadhar was done my Mindtree (not sure all the work or just a part of it). Also, here's a nice video which talks about internal tech-details used for Aadhar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08sq0y8V1sE
Hope this helps - Mohit On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 12:26 AM, shirish शिरीष <[email protected]> wrote: > at bottom :- > > On 7/4/15, Amiruddin Nagri <[email protected]> wrote: > > If good governance may not come using UID, it was certainly not coming > when > > > > UID was not there. > > > > Yes there are all sort of security issues, but if you think about > > 120,000,000,000 people, half of whom live below poverty line, with UID > > trying to give them sort of promise that their share of social welfare is > > going to reach them directly without any middleman, that it is not going > to > > > > leak through the 50 yr old pen and paper system, it is good enough to > > implement. > > > > This article only highlights the problem of UID, but fails to give any > > solutions. Some of the points about legality, security and audit are > > genuine and Govt should move in that direction. But not scrap it because > > the white men were not able to do it successfully. > > Hi all, > Dear @Amiruddin the issues that have been outlined are just tip of the > iceberg. There are some other reasons as well :- > > a. The company to which the project has been given is not Indian (it's > an American company) . Would such a company would have loyalty to us > or someone else ? > > b. Also it's not the question of the white man or the black man but > data corruption. There has been no sharing by the company concerned > what toolings are they using ? > > Even a simple wikipedia page outlines the issue with data corruption > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_corruption gives the various ways > in which silent data corruption can happen. > > c. Are there any penalty laws if data gets corrupted. AFAIK there > aren't. Then there should be auditing by third-party of random data > (chunks) , is there some sort of known genuine third-party auditors > that the majority will accept and are technically skilled to see it > through, apart form the Election Commission which does it every 4-5 > years don't think so as the dataset is just so huge. > > Also how are you assuming that the middle-man will be out? AFAIK the > application itself is proprietary. If I were a bad guy/ an actor I > would just code a back-door and nobody would be wiser and this could > be anybody in a chain who is supposed to verify the Aadhar information > to the one who is filling the data in. There were reports of data > leakage right at the input source which had been deliberately ignored. > Forget elsewhere, there were such incidents happening in Pune itself > which came in newspapers for a day or two and then disappeared. As > shared above as well, in neither of the cases was any FIR filed or > anything else for that matter. > > And if the govt. were really serious about getting people social > welfare, the bank account initiative + using the post office as a > multi-user institution would be more useful. > > At the end of the day, whether it is the ration card or Aadhar card, > you will be dealing with the same person whom you were dealing on day > 1. > > You are also assuming that data at the input stage is all correct, I > had looked at couple of places where people who were working at > Aadhar, how much training they had ? And if data is corrupted at the > source itself (during sign up) then don't think people will come to > know unless something obvious like gender has changed or year has aged > etc. > > I don't really want to talk about Aadhar much as it's a slippery > slope, hence signing off for now. > Till later. > -- > Regards, > Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल > My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com > EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8 > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
