On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:24 AM, prabir <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 May 2010 08:11, Raj Mathur <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Nagarjuna, Prabir Purkayastha, Venky and I were invited to participate >> in the UIDAI meeting with the Civil Society yesterday, May 6. The >> meeting had about 30 people from civil society organisations with Nandan >> Nilekani, R S Sharma, Srikant, Raju and a couple of other people >> representing the UIDAI. > .... >> Firstly with regard to laws relating to privacy and misuse and abuse of >> the NUID database. Both NN and RSS agreed in principle that any such >> legislation would be drafted and opened to the public for comments >> before being submitted to Parliament for ratification. > > If we are to intervene on this, we need to think how we can do the following: > a) Define boundaries of what data should be collected for UID > b) Define access terms and conditions > c) Define what cannot be done with the data collected > d) No penalties for opting out if this is a voluntary scheme as stated
Current census is happening under citizenship act and not under census act. The datacollection process and its linkage with UID (without any legal base) itself is illegal. This makes the terrific situation of linking biometric data inseperable with demographic data When the process itself is illegal , are we pointing how to legalise data Collected? > >> Finally, there is talk about having a technical meeting with the UIDAI >> architects sometime in the future. > > This again would require preparation. We need to be about what is > being done -- UID documents, to be reviewed > Technical preparations on what and how it should be done > Techno-economic analysis of UID scheme taking into account the costs > as opposed to benefits. As of now UID believes Putting up a lot of standards together solves every issue . Check the biometric commettee report, Api standard doc etc for examples > Raj, not sure would call our participation "flag flying", might sound > too militaristic :) > > Prabir > _______________________________________________ > network mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in > -- "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
