Congrats Smt Meenakshi Lekhiji

 

( mrs.mlekhi@sansad.nic.in  /  mlekhioffice@gmail.com )

 

Context :

We’ve not leveraged Advantage of Being World’s Largest Data Market  /  Eco Times – 30 Nov

Extract :

Ø  The interest of everyone is common, which is that we need to protect the interests of India, Indians and their privacy

Ø  Our only competitor is China, and they have not allowed the entry of big tech companies into their markets. They are controlling the technology, hardware and the AI.

Ø  We have not leveraged our advantages. It has been 20 years of the IT Act and there has been no result.

Ø  Why should India not be a hub of AI revolution and innovation?

Ø  Through this bill, the Committee wants to establish a rule-based open, just and transparent system for the good of the public

Ø  Indian engineers along with the enormous data are fantastic resources for the big technology revolution

Ø  Every clause is being discussed, every opinion is being considered, and every contrarian view is being debated for due consideration

Context :

JPC Split Over Draft Data Privacy Law, Govt Access  /  Eco Times – 30 Nov

Extract :

Ø  A senior member of the JPC from an opposition party suggested that Section 35 of the bill, which allows the Centre to exempt its agencies from some or all provisions of the bill for national security and public order, should be granted only if it is necessary, proportionate and when public interest outweighs breaching the right to privacy

Ø  Similar concerns were voiced by other members who said such processing of personal data should not be permitted unless it is authorized pursuant to a law, as recommended in the original draft of 2018

Ø  Some members want the section to be deleted, arguing that it can be subject to government abuse and it runs contrary to Puttaswamy judgement that deals with the Right to Privacy

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Dear Smt Meenakshiji,

Congratulations !

For

Ø  Dexterous handling of the deliberations of the JPC ( 30 meetings and counting ! )

Ø  Plain-speaking ( eg: China vs India )

Ø  Focusing on much broader aspect of “ Interests of Indian Citizen “ , rather than on narrow vision of “ Controlling of fake news / hate speech “ etc

Ø  Reposing faith in the capabilities of Indian engineers to pull off a “ big technology revolution “

Ø  Consensus-building by encouraging debate on “ Contrarian Views “

Ø  Wanting to establish a “ rule-based open, just and transparent system for the good of the public “    

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My Take :

[ A ]  Section 35

As far as Section 35 is concerned, I urge Members of your committee to consider my following suggestion which will adequately satisfy the needs of the Government while protecting the privacy of the individuals, in a most TRANSPARENT way :

Who watches the Watchmen ? ……………………………[ 12 Jan 2019 ]

 

My proposal,

  

#  Gives a free hand to the Agencies to proceed with their investigations, without needing PRIOR PERMISSION

   

And

 

#  Ensures total TRANSPARENCY of their surveillance activities to the persons being investigated

    

This will assure the ordinary citizens (– and also “ vulnerable “ citizens such as politicians belonging to opposition parties ? )– that they are not being snooped upon secretly !

 

 

[ B ]   Good of the Public

 

The real issue here is :

Ø  Every time  I click on any website , “ I agree with your Terms / Conditions “ ( always without reading ), I am entering into a “ one – to – one “ legally binding contract with that site , enabling it to collect / compile enormous personal data about myself

( Eg : What permissions I gave to Google ? Read :

            How many Mobile Apps will you ban ?  ………………[ 24 Nov 2020 ]

Ø  Like me , some 400 million Indian users have clicked YES – and entered into such contracts with ( say ) 10 Social Media websites

             That adds up to 4000 million “ Individual Contracts “ ! Does Data Protection Law consider these valid ?

Ø  These sites are selling my PERSONAL DATA to advertisers and earning BILLIONS of dollars each year . I get nothing for my very own personal data ! I cannot demand any compensation ( as per contract )

Ø  If someone hacks into the database of these sites and steals millions of records, it is rarely reported . Even when reported, I have no clue that my personal data was part of that theft !

Ø  I would not be any wiser, even if I come to know that my data got stolen ( or got sold ) , since I have no resources to fight a court-case against that site ( even if I knew where to file a case. Under which law ! )

My suggested solution :

Ø  All of these 4,000 million ( individual ) contracts to be replaced with just 10 “ Sovereign Contracts “, to be entered into between GOI ( on behalf of Indian Users ) on one hand and those 10 websites on the other hand . You can see : - it is possible to defend 10 contracts in a court of law – but not 4000 million contracts !

Ø  By nullifying those 4000 million individual contracts – and through entering Sovereign Contracts, GOI will ensure that these Social Media sites, COMPENSATE the users for using / selling their PERSONAL DATA

Ø  My estimate is that this OVERARCHING FRAME-WORK / PLATFORM , will enable each Indian User to receive from Social Media sites ( by way of COMPENSATION ) , Rs 30,000 PER MONTH !

 

I urge the Members of your committee , to carefully study the elaborate details of my proposal at :

 Digital Dividend from Demographic Data [ 4 D ]…………………..... [ 14 Feb 2019 ]

 

 SARAL ( Single  Authentic  Registration for Anywhere  Login )…[ 10 Feb 2019 ]

 

Related Readings :

     Hurry / do not Hesitate ……………………………………………… .[ 18 Nov 2020 ]

    GAFA ( aka Monopoly V 2.0 ? ) ………………………………………[ 30 Sept 2020 ]

     A Greed-Ship named Facebook ………………………………………[ 21 Sept 2020 ]

     Time for the Next Step …………………………………………………….[ 15 Sept 2020 ]

     Only Answer : a Statutory Warning…………………………………..[ 10 Nov 2018 ]

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Dear Meenakshiji,

Ø  If Members of your Committee have any reservations in respect of the feasibility of my proposal, then I request you to forward these to the most respected technology experts of our country and ask them to depose before the committee .

 

Ø  As you rightly observed, ” Indian engineers along with the enormous data are fantastic resources for the big technology revolution “.

 

If given a challenge, they are capable of a solution which will be far better than what USA-UK-France-Germany-Australia etc have done so far

      

With regards,

Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 30 Nov 2020 

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          Members of JPC for Data protection Bill

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Member Name	Party	E Mail ID
Meenakshi Lekhi	BJP	mrs.mlekhi@sansad.nic.in
P P Chaoudhary	BJP	ppchaudhary@sansad.nic.in
S S Ahluwalia	BJP	ssa@sansad.nic.in
Tejaswi Surya	BJP	tejasvi.surya@sansad.nic.in
Ajay Bhatt	BJP	ajaybhattlopuk@gmail.com
Col R Singh Rathore	BJP	rajvardhan.rathore@sansad.nic.in
Sanjay Jaiswal	BJP	drsanjayjaiswal@gmail.com
Kirit Solanki	BJP	kitit.solanki@sansad.nic.in
Arvind Dharmapuri	BJP	arvind.dharmapuri@sansad.nic.in
Dr Heena Gavit	BJP	drheenagavit@gmail.com
Uday Pratap Singh	BJP	uday.pratap@sansad.nic.in
Rajiv Ranjan Singh	JDU	lalanrrsingh@yahoo.co.in
Gaurav Gogoi	Congress	gaurav.gogoi@sansad.nic.in
S Jothi Mani	Congress	jothimani102@gmail.com
Prof Saugata Roy	TMC	saugata.roy@sansad.nic.in
Kanimozhi	DMK	kanimozhi@sansad.nic.in
P V Midhun Reddy	YSR Congress	midhun.reddy@sansad.nic.in
Dr  Shrikant Shinde	Shivsena	shrikant.shinde@sansad.nic.in
Bhartruhari Mahtab	BJD	bhartruhari.mahtab@gmail.com
Ritesh Pandey	BSP	ritesh.pandey@sansad.nic.in
Bhupendra Yadav	BJP	bhupendra.yadav@sansad.nic.in
Suresh Prabhu	BJP	sureshprabhu@sansad.nic.in
Rajeev Chandrasekhar	BJP	rajeev.c@sansad.nic.in
Ashwini Vaishnaw	BJP	av.odisha@sansad.nic.in
Jairam Ramesh	Congress	jairam@sansad.nic.in
Vivek Tankha	Congress	vivektankha.mp@sansad.nic.in
Derek O’brien	TMC	derek.ob@sansad.nic.in
A Navneethkrishnan	AIDMK	a.navkrish@sansad.nic.in
Ram Gopal Yadav	TRS	ramgopal.yadav@sansad.nic.in
Amar Patnaik	BJP	amar.patnaik@sansad.nic.in

      

Shri Indu Bhushan has a dream

 

 

No doubt, this is a distant dream

Here is why :

 It is facing obstacles of ,

Ø  Hardware ( every piece of medical device to be internet connected and standardized ? ) and

Ø  Software  ( common central database + collaboration between millions of separate / stand-alone / unstructured / non-standardized databases held on different servers of doctors / hospitals / nursing homes / labs / health centers etc )

Ø  Concerns about private / personal health data of an individual getting leaked to others

Ø  A massive exercise of training millions of health workers to scrupulously follow SOP ( Standard Operating Procedures ) in each and every interaction with a sick person and record their findings / observations / recommendations etc in STANDARDIZED FORMS , across entire country

 It will take time for our National Health Vault / National Health Stack , to get universally “ accepted “ and “practiced “, by the patients / health workers / health institutions

But that process can accelerate if the Government (with the cooperation of country-wide health workers ) undertake a campaign to CONVINCE the citizen, the long-term benefits of this exercise , viz :

PREDICTION and PREVENTION of ILLNESSES to each citizen

By citing following – and similar – examples :

AI Model Could Help Patients Predict Disease Risk With Electronic Health Records  /  06 Nov 2020

 

Extract :

Ø  Electronic health records use a two-level hierarchical structure to capture the medical journey of a patient using International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes. The hierarchy begins with the patient, followed by the chronological sequence of visits. Then within each visit, ICD codes are stored with the recorded symptoms for that visit.

Ø  He added, ““The model can output the probability of whether the patient will suffer some disease. For some patients, they may not have clear symptoms at the current time, but the model can make a prediction.”

Ø  The researchers conducted experiments on three real-world electronic health record datasets of patients with heart failure, kidney disease and dementia, and found that LSAN outperformed existing state-of-the-art shallow methods and deep learning models.

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It is indeed heartening that , Shri Indu Bhushan ( CEO – Ayushman Bharat / i.bhushan@gov.in ) has come up with “ NDHM Sandbox “ , which will enable “ controlled experimentations “, as explained below :

 

 Accelerating Digital Health Innovation  /  Eco Times – 26 Nov 2020

Extract :

#  NDHM has created a “sandbox “that enables technologies or products to be tested in a contained environment

    and duration – subject to NDHM standards and oversight – and judge the consumer and market reactions to the

    same

#  The sandbox will facilitate integration of current systems and IT platforms in healthcare with NDHM building

     blocks namely , Health ID, Doctors’ and Health Facility Registries, and Patient Health Records

#  At its core, the sandbox has been created with the objective to foster RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION in Health

    Tech Services, promote efficiency and bring benefit to consumers

#  The sandbox brings together healthcare and health tech service providers, centrally and state run public health

     programmes , software providers, healthcare aggregators, tech companies to TEST and INTEGRATE their

     products and services with NDHM

#  The NDHM sandbox is founded on the idea that the government, private sector and citizen need to work

     together as partner to solve the problem of healthcare. It will enable “ learning by doing “ on all sides

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Following is a brief list of those “ RESPONSIBLE INNOVATIONS “, which , I think Shri Bhushan would want to experiment with, in NDHM sandbox :

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Source : Modicare : A Game Changer ………………….[ 01 Feb 2018 ]

 

Extract :

       Each eligible family member to be issued a “ Ayushman Card “ ( linked to Aadhar ID )

 

 Ayushman card will have inbuilt memory capacity to store that person’s health data from “ Cradle to Grave “ ( Privacy advocate need not worry ! )

 

  All the Health Data of all 50 crore beneficiaries to be stored on a Central Server for BIG DATA analysis , in order to “ Predict “ WHO might become susceptible to WHICH ailment and WHEN

 

  

As an alternative , a GPS enabled / NFC capable Smart Phone pre-loaded with AYUSHMAN MOBILE APP , could be considered to replace the card

 

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Ayushman Bharat : Think Big ……………………………………[ 23 Sept 2018 ]

Extract :

Tomorrow, each medical device will be embedded with sensors / transmitters and be Internet connected ( IoT ) to relay their readings to the Central Health Server of Ayushman Bharat

Government will make it mandatory for the device manufacturers to embed such sensors

And, day after tomorrow, these devices will become nano-size and get printed as electronic tattoos on our skins or become integral parts of our bodies, like contact lenses or stents

What is in it for Ayushman Bharat  ?

Consider this :

       #  Doctor takes the readings of the patient using these internet connected devices

       #  Devices transmit these data to the smart phones of both, the doctor and the patient

       #  These phones transmit these data to the Central Health Care Server of Ayushman Bharat and update the LIFE

           TIME MEDICAL HISTORY of that person

       #  This history can be accessed only by the “ Authorized “ health centers / hospitals / nursing homes , which are

           official partners of the Ayushman Bharat scheme

Imagine all the Medical Devices ( including ECG / EEG / PET Scan,  located in private clinics / health centers / hospitals / nursing homes / Path labs / Diagnostic centers  etc ), transmitting to a Central Server ,

      #   Medical diagnosis

      #   Treatment

      #   Administered drugs

      #   Surgical procedures  

-       for all 50 crore citizens covered by this scheme

And imagine such petabytes of health data being subjected to BIG DATA analysis using AI  !

Ayushman Bharat has the potential to usher this Health-care Revolution

When that happens , expect the AI to do the following :

     #    Offer Customized healthcare / Medical treatment / Supplementary diet

     #    Guide your family doctor to prescribe the best-suited medicine for each member of your family

     #    Recommend some “ preventive “ medicines before a disease manifests itself !

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2024 ! – V 2.0 of Orwellian 1984 ? ……………………………….[ 07 July 2017 ]

Extract :

There are 7,000 million people on the earth

It is possible that , at any given time , some 7 million of these are lying in ICU , connected with :

*   Electroencephalogram ( Brain Monitor )

*   Electrocardiogram      ( Heart Monitor )

*   Pulse Rate Meter

*   Oxygen Level Meter

*   Glucose Level Meter........etc

As soon as these instruments get embedded with Internet of Things ( IoT ), a central server could collect all of these " measurements / readings " on 24*7 basis , for all 7 million persons 

Then it will combine these readings with following data about each of those 7 million persons :

*   Country / Region / City  /  Language 

*   Race /  Religion  /  Gender /  Age

*   Height /  Weight  /  Colour  /  Biometrics 

*   Blood Group / DNA  / Past Medical History.....etc


It will also record , who died / when  !

Using such massive data base, can BIG DATA / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, figure out what   “Customized healthcare / Medical treatment / Supplementary diet " should be " prescribed " for each human on this earth ?

Shall we support such " Invasion of Individual Privacy " , in the larger interest / benefit of entire mankind ?

I think, we should 

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Dear Shri Indu Bhushanji,

I suppose, much like Martin Luther King, you too are saying :  I have a dream !

May God fulfill your dream

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh  /  hcp@recruitGuru.com  /  30  Nov 2020