The election commission gives all this pdfs in CDs to political parties under law. The lack of availability of voter lists makes it hard for people to know if they are in the list or not. That is main issue for most of them.
Regards, Srinivas Kodali On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:18 AM Naraina Damle <cadvis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Just updating with a recent find. > > > >>>>My opinion is they should make pdfs after Rasterising the pages in a > kind of Odd and jaggered font > >>>>So that they are readable by Humans but not easily by Machines > > > Now they have a captcha before you can download a pdf and the PDF itself > is Rasterised. > > On Monday, May 19, 2014 at 12:09:45 PM UTC+5:30, Naraina Damle wrote: >> >> HI >> >> YES, >> >> I think the way the Data access is provided gives transparency but it can >> be misused. >> I had downloaded Goa and Delhi pdfs several years back. >> >> Then explained to someone on a social network how he/she can be tracked >> and Stalked. >> PIPL.com can help you get complete name even if your name is hidden on >> some networks. >> MTNL/BSNL Phone directory can get your number >> Voter pdfs can give your address >> >> and this can be done on a mass scale. >> >> My opinion is they should make pdfs after Rasterising the pages in a kind >> of Odd and jaggered font >> So that they are readable by Humans but not easily by Machines >> >> Rgds >> Dilip Damle >> >> >> >> On Friday, April 11, 2014 9:55:03 AM UTC+5:30, Devdatta Tengshe wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> I found this interesting article by a guy who downloaded and processed >>> the Voter list of Delhi: https://medium.com/p/1aff55526881 >>> >>> I found this via a discussion on Reddit: >>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/22pn8u/i_wrote_a_few_simple_python_scripts_to_retrieve/ >>> >>> I'll like to quote his findings here: >>> >>> >>> 1. It is possible to automate the retrieval of every single PDF roll >>> all across India >>> 2. These PDFs can then be processed in a matter of minutes to >>> produce details like Addresses, names, father’s name, gender, age and >>> voters ID number for every single registered voter of India >>> 3. Nearly 25% of the Voter IDs assigned within only Delhi fail to >>> conform to the government format, and fail the Luhn Checksum test used to >>> validate them. It is likely that other states are in a similar, if not >>> worse condition >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Devdatta Tengshe >>> >>> -- > 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.
