Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Monday, 20 August 2018

Google Knows All : A de Jure Recognition ?





In Bombay High Court , this is what Hon Justice S C Dharmadhikari said  YESTERDAY :




“ The concept of of surveillance state exists , even without the Aadhar card


Today, Google knows more about Justice Dharmadhikari than may be himself and it is available to everyone


Personal details are collected for credit cards, driving license and flight tickets


Everything is easily available . For everything , we do not have a medicine




Here is what I wrote ( blog sent as email to Supreme Court / ShriKrishna Committee )



An   Open  Letter  [  13  April  2018  ] :





Dear Hon Shri Misraji ,


Let me assume that you are using a,



*    Smart phone made by SAMSUNG 

     ( a South Korean manufacturer  )


*    Its Operating System is ANDROID 

     ( owned by American Google )


*    Its service provider is Vodafone

   (  a UK based Mobile Sevice Provider )



All of these entities have a complete  AUDIO LOG  of each and every word that you ever uttered , using your smart phone !  Ever since you started using it !


And complete log of every web site you ever visited from that phone


And entire data of your online purchases , made through any mobile app


This holds good of everyone using a smart phone – including government officials in charge of our national security !


Although a bit late , George Orwell’s “  1984 “ has finally arrived  !




And a few months earlier , I sent the  following E Mail :









I am tempted to call this phenomenon ,

ELECTRONIC  AMALGAM  !



Take the case of Aadhar , which is our BIO-METRIC DATA ( captured as BYTES )



Over the past 3 years ( - and especially after De-Monetization ) , Aadhar has been alloyed  inextricably with the following other BYTES of DIGITAL DATA , to form an ELECTRONIC AMALGAM  :


·         130 DBT Schemes

·         Bank Accounts

·         Mobile Wallets

·         Ration Cards

·         Credit-Debit Cards

·         PAN Cards

·         Driving Licenses

·         Income Tax Payments / GST Payments

·         E Commerce Apps

·         Voter ID Cards ( soon ? )

·         Online Purchase of Train ( - and other transport ) services

·         Registration on most web sites / all Messaging Apps / Social Media

·         Passport / Travel Documents

·         Appearing for Online Exams / Tests





·         Altogether firmly linked with ,

#     50 crore SIM cards


#     54 crore Bank Accounts seeded with Aadhar


#     118.64 crore Indians who used it for authentication nearly 1217 crore times


#     19 crore Jan Dhan bank accounts used Aadhar for identification


#     9.54 crore MGNREGA workers have used Aadhar to receive wages in accounts


#     1.48 crore pensioners have linked Aadhar to bank accounts


#     1.36 crore Indians got passport based on Aadhar


#     Due to Aadhar linkage, 11.35 lakh duplicate PAN got detected / deactivated


   
List keeps growing by the day !



Therefore , I am not surprised that 2 days back , Supreme Court refused to grant a stay to petitioners for Aadhar Actlegitimacy and  linking with Bank Accounts / Mobile Nos



It referred the matter to the 5 Judge Constitutional Bench , formed for this purpose , which will decide by end November



I would be surprised if that Constitutional Bench were to decide :


·         Aadhar Act is “ Un-Constitutional “ and must be struck down



That would be like discovering some, hitherto unknown method of separation / dis-entanglement / dismembering  / destruction , of  an ELECTRONIC  AMALGAM ,


 - a task of erasing trillions of petabytes of 0s and 1s , from millions of computers from all over the World – remotely and without the permissions of those Computer Owners !



The chaos that is bound to ensue, will make us forget the pains of DEMONETIZATION and GST , combined !



We have many examples of   “ Un-implementable Laws “



STRIKING DOWN AADHAR ACT WILL BE AN EXAMPLE OF  “ UN-ENFORCEABLE   JUDGEMENT “ !



Such a “ discovery “ would merit a Nobel Prize ( - in  “ Virtual Unreality “ category ? )



I have no doubt , the Hon Judges of the Supreme Court have heard about :


The Law of Un-intended Consequences




21  Aug  2018



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