How will that happen ?
Over the past 4 / 5 days , there is a debate raging around the UIDAI filing a FIR
against a whistle-blower journalist of TRIBUNE , who found out a chink in the armour of
UIDAI
He found that , for a small payment of Rs 500 to some low-level functionary in the
vast UIDAI machinery
( running into thousands of data-processors / handlers , spread all over India
), one can access the Aadhar
Database !
According to TRIBUNE report, there were
about 100,000 illegal
users and that the unauthorised may have started 6 months ago ! It has offered all help to UIDAI , which has in the
meantime , taken following precautions :
·
Restricted the access of all
designated officials – numbering about 5,000 – to the Aadhar Portal , only by entering
the biometric of the person whose details were sought to be verified ( - just
entering the 12 digit unique identity number , will no more suffice )
·
Under the new system , access needs to be authenticated by the
fingerprint of the Aadhar holder and the data available will be restricted to
that person
·
Moved to banks / post
offices, centres of 4,000
PRIVATE OPERATORS and started work on shifting of another 26,000 PRIVATE OPERATORS to these (
presumably ) SAFE PREMISES
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In the meantime , Justice BN Srikrishna ( who heads an expert committee for
framing a draft DATA
PROTECTION LAW ) says :
·
His panel is NOT examining
how Aadhar works . Supreme Court is looking into it
·
Data Privacy across the country
is NOT a problem as
such but Data Protection is
·
HOW the data is collected , either by
consent or without consent , WHAT will be its implications and HOW do we protect it, these are the issues
·
Protection means it is YOUR data, YOU
have the RIGHT to say for WHAT purpose it is being collected, WHAT it is being used for and WHEN will YOU destroy it
I am glad that the Expert Committee , found
time to read my following
E Mails – and accepted ( - could be reluctantly ! ) , my contention that
it is getting almost IMPOSSIBLE to
prevent internet connected devices ( starting with smart phones ) , to collect / harvest , a
user’s PRIVATE DATA
As far as that matter of CONSENT is concerned , all those devices will warn you when you
switch on :
“ BY USING THIS DEVICE , YOU ARE AGREEING TO OUR
COLLECTING ANY / ALL DATA ABOUT YOU AND ALSO ALLOWING US TO USE IT FOR WHATEVER PURPOSE WE
THINK FIT “
Privacy? What is that ? [ 04 May 2017
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