A previous article that really brought out the misuses and misinterpretations happening, including a tables-turning on UIDAI itself :
https://in.news.yahoo.com/three-supreme-court-orders-later--what-s-the-deal-with-aadhaar-094316180.html Three Supreme Court Orders Later, What's the Deal with Aadhaar? "By law, you should not be denied any government service in India if you don’t have an Aadhar card number. So why do various government programs continue to ignore three Supreme Court orders and insist on the dreaded number, and how are they getting away with it?" One clear disadvantage I see of the biology subject being totally separated from engineering fields : The fact that fingerprints change, can be easily faked, and cannot be used as identifier is being absolutely ignored by every UID advocate :P I think the issue here is at a deeper level than the "techie" domain, and I think allowing fear to rule our lives and make our decisions for us pushes us more and more into the kind of mentality that favours such ideas. One of the first governments in history to really go all-out in keeping track of each and every citizen, was Nazi Germany. We cannot separate the intent from the technical aspects. Every technology-advocate has a moral responsibility to ensure that the thing he's advocating doesn't get used in the worst interests of the public. It is either absent-minded or fraudulent to ignore the abuses and focus only on promised advantages that have already been proven to be false in other countries that have been over this hill already, as the articles shared have illustrated. And keep in mind the Precautionary Principle : If something unnatural, invasive and potentially harmful is being proposed, then the burden of evidence lies on the proposers, to prove its safety, failing which it can automatically be presumed to be unsafe. Cars without safety certificate are automatically dangerous.. we don't need an unsafety certificate to prove that. Let's compare the smoking ban concept with this : Suppose we ban universal tracking of citizens, as some countries like UK have. Now that can be compared with banning smoking! Besides, the world is not going to die if universal tracking doesn't happen. Nature never considered it a good idea to keep track of every animal or plant : something every species-cataloger will complain about. Yet fulfilling everyone's needs was somehow managed. On the other hand, if universal tracking does happen successfully, then honour killings, harassments, pre-judgements, blackmail, loss of autonomy, further rigidity etc in a deeply corrupt, unequal, biased and unfair society will become SO much easier... On 7/6/15, shirish शिरीष <[email protected]> wrote: > at bottom :- > > On 7/5/15, mohit ranjan <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >> > > Dear Mohit, > I know that quite a few indian organizations are also part of it but > at the start at least it was Accenture and L1 Identity Solutions, now > Sagem Morpho who are/were part of it. At least Sagem still is. > > http://www.moneylife.in/article/unfolding-aadhaar-scam-important-pages-missing-from-uidai-contracts---part1/39321.html > > http://www.moneylife.in/article/unfolding-of-aadhaar-scam-guaranteed-revenue-flow-for-mncs-by-modi-govt-ndashpart2/39333.html > > And to see that at least the Sagem part is true is their own hackathon > which they organized just sometime back. > > https://www.hackerearth.com/sprints/aadhaar-application-hackathon/ > > My simple question is, should a foreign company have such sort of data > which could be used to influence everything and anything they want out > of it and be paid on top of it. > > While http://www.moneylife.in/life/uid/aadhaar has enough questions on > different methods, for e.g. see > http://www.moneylife.in/article/retrieving-lost-aadhaar-number-impossible-test-for-the-poor/40583.html > > At the very least, Aadhar or UIDAI has done a piss-poor job of sharing > how they would make the data secure as well as getting data retrieved. > I would certainly look at the video on the week-end when I have a bit > more time at my end :) > > -- > 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. 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