Thank You, Shri Jairam Rameshji,

I sent to you [ - and to each member of your committee ], following email yesterday :

Time to Get Impatient ?  ,

-      where , I made a few suggestions on regulating / reducing , online pornographic content

-       

This morning, I came across following news report :

 

Rajya Sabha panel lays out child porn crackdown plan

Here are the highlights of the recommendations as reported in this news :

Ø  Creation of a regulatory framework to curtail the access of pornographic material to children… including the creation of a new regulator, a more dedicated regulatory framework.

Ø  The government has to significantly improve their enforcement of existing laws

Ø  India must take a leadership role and constitute an international alliance against child porn in the lines of a solar alliance.

Ø  Creating an organization like Interpol to exclusively tackle child pornography

Ø  Focus on three areas — technology, administrative steps, and legal measures — to find a solution.

     { advancement in technology makes it difficult to stop pornographic material on the

      Internet }

Ø  China has put a blanket ban on Google and WhastApp, but the panel was clear that China model should not be followed in India

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Dear Shri Jairam Rameshji,

I understand that your Committee will submit its report to the Government on 15 Jan

     Without doubt, your committee will debate – and decide the priorities based on the

     following considerations :

Ø  What is “ Important – but not quite Urgent “

     ( eg : International Alliance / Interpol like organization )

Ø  What is both “ Urgent AND Important “

( eg : Improving enforcement of existing laws /  Dedicated  Regulatory Framework )

Members of your committee are right in saying :

“ As far as regulation of internet is concerned, we need not blindly follow, either the Chinese model or the Russian model “

But the model suggested by me is superior to those , in the following respects :

Ø  It is “ Voluntary “ and not “ mandatory “

Ø  It does not invade the “ Privacy “ of the users

Ø  It will refuse “Registration “by a person who is not an adult !

Ø  It will enable users to “monetize “ their personal data  - if they wish

I once again urge you to read :

 Digital Dividend from Demographic Data                            [ 14 Feb 2019 ]

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24  Dec  2019

hcp@RecruitGuru.com

Faith Renewed in ARIHANT

For long, I have believed that :

Mankind may lose the battle of PRIVACY but win the war against TERRORISM

By implementing :

Fast Forward to Future ( 3 F )                                 [  20  Oct  2016  ]

In support of which, I also wrote :

Racing towards ARIHANT ?                                      [ 04  Aug  2017 ]

to : Alphabet / from : ARIHANT                               [ 12  Oct  2017  ]

ARIHANT  :  on the  horizon ?                                  [ 17  May  2018 ]

ARIHANT : Beyond “ Thought Experiment “               [ 21  May  2018 ]

Will ARIHANT humble the hackers ?                          [ 11  Feb  2019 ]

 

But what makes my faith in ARIHANT to get renewed ?

 

Following article :

 

From 'Jeopardy' to poker to reading comprehension, robots have managed to beat humans in all of these contests in the past decade

Landmarks of the advance of TECHNOLOGY , as reported in this article :

Ø  2011   

      IBM's Watson beats two former champions to win Jeopardy

Ø  2014

      Facebook's DeepFace facial recognition algorithm achieves an accuracy of 97 % ,

      Rivalling the rates of humans

      

Ø  2015

      Google DeepMind's AlphaGo defeats Go champions in Korea and Europe

Ø  2016

      Microsoft speech recognition AI can transcribe audio with fewer mistakes than

      humans

Ø  2017

      Libratus, an AI bot, defeats four of the world's leading poker players

Ø  2017

      An OpenAI bot defeats a human esports player at the multiplayer  online battle

      Arena game DOTA 2

      

Ø  2017

      An AI system developed by researchers at Northwestern  is able to beat 75 % of

      Americans at a visual  intelligence test

Ø  2018

      Alibaba's AI outscores humans in a Stanford University  reading comprehension test

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24  Dec  2019

hcp@RecruitGuru.com

Time to Get Impatient ?

Context :

Online platforms like Whatsapp don't cooperate citing encryption: Government 

Extract :

Ø  Platforms like WhatsApp and Signal do not cooperate with law enforcement agencies citing end-to-end encryption and don't even honour lawful requisitions, government officials have told a Rajya Sabha panel looking into the issue of pornography on social media and its effects on children.

Ø  Earlier this month, an ad-hoc committee of the Rajya Sabha was formed by the Upper House Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu on the "alarming issue" of pornography on social media and its effects on children and society as a whole

Ø  Appearing before the panel, MEITY in a note said the ministry faces many legal challenges from social media platforms on the issue of pornography as their servers are abroad and they "claim to be governed by laws of hosting country when information for investigation is sought".

Ø  While in some cases, the ministry said, only meta data is shared and for majority cases either mutual legal assistance treaty or letter rogatory is insisted upon which is a very time-consuming process.

Ø  “ Even lawful requisitions are not honoured," the ministry said in the note shared with panel members.

Ø  It further said the law enforcement officials do not have explicit powers for undercover operations………

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DÉJÀ  VU  ?

Early this year , there was a “ Parliamentary Committee on IT “ ( headed by Shri Anurag Thakur ), which got snubbed repeatedly , by the Social Media giants on the subjects of Fake News / Hate Content etc

Twitter CEO – Jack Dorsey , even refused to meet the Committee !

That prompted me to send following emails to that Committee :

Taxing the Data Thieves ?                                                       [ 04 Mar 2019 ]

What are you waiting for ?                                                       [ 25 Feb 2019 ]

In China : It is “ Comply or Quit “                                             [ 25 Feb 2019 ]

Missing the Jungle for the Tree ?                                              [ 12 Feb 2019 ]

SARAL                                                                                    [ 10 Feb 2019 ]

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[ A ]

Present legal status of pornography in India , as reported in Wikipedia , is :

·         In July 2015 the Supreme Court of India refused to allow the blocking of pornographic websites and said that watching pornography indoors in the privacy of one's own home was not a crime

^·          In February 2016 the Supreme Court asked the Indian Government to suggest ways of banning all forms of child pornography.^[15]

·         In October 2018 the government directed Internet service providers to block 827 websites that host pornographic content following an order by the Uttarakhand High Court

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[ B ]

Is this “ ban / blockage “ working ?

I would say only partially , considering that :

Ø  On the web, there are any number of proxy sites that enable one to bypass this blockage and access those banned sites

If in doubt, just type in Google :

 “ how to bypass blocked websites at school “ ,

to find following number of results / links :

About 15,00,000 results (0.61 seconds)  !

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[ C ]

To Shri Jairam Ramesh ( Chairman- Rajya Sabha Committee ) , I would say, it is time to :

[  Jairam@sansad.nic.in  /  jairam54@gmail.com  ]

Ø  Get IMPATIENT  ( tell the Social Media : Enough is enough ! )

Ø  Study how China regulates its Social Media

[ Regulation of Internet in China : an Explainer  ]

Ø  Study how Russia regulates its Social Media

          [  Russia internet: Law introducing new controls comes into force  ]

 

 

Ø  To hurry up with the implementation of ;

 

          Digital Dividend from Demographic Data                            [ 14 Feb 2019 ]

 

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23 Dec 2019

hcp@recruitGuru.com

A Reform by Re-naming ?

Just came across following news report :

Government plans law to reposition stats body  

Extract :

 “In the absence of any legislative framework, the NSC has faced challenges in implementing its recommendations,” the government said inviting comments on the proposed law.

It tasks the NCS with a mandate “to evolve, monitor and enforce statistical priorities and standards and to ensure statistical coordination” and gives it a corporate structure.

The Bill envisages financial autonomy for the commission through an independent National Statistical Fund, but it would be bound by directions that the Centre “may give in writing to it from time to time”

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This is a long-overdue, welcome step

[ A ]

The most important feature is : “ Corporate Structure “

This means the government must treat the proposed “ National Statistical Fund “ as a one-time infusion of EQUITY, in this “ CORPORATION “

Then ask its directors to generate income / profit from its OPERATIONS ( year after year ).

In short , tell the Board of Directors :

Ø   NSC is not a PSU

Ø   You will register with ROC as a “ Company “ , but you will be independent as

      Election Commission , reporting to the President of India  

Ø  You will generate your own INCOME from which , you will meet all your EXPENSES . This may include selling of statistical data ,as per existing policy of the government , as illustrated in :

          Bulk Data Sharing / Selling Policy ?

         Thanks , Shri Piyush Goyalji

 

Ø   If you need to , you will raise further equity from the open market ( by IPO listing )

Ø   You can take loans from banks, strictly on prevailing commercial terms

Ø   Government will not offer any sovereign guarantee for such loans

Ø   You will launch your web site where you will upload every quarter, working results

Ø   On this web site, you will also publish, METHODOLOGIES for compilation of statistics

Ø  Besides methodologies / statistical techniques employed ( for each type of statistics ), you will also publish on your web site :

#  Broad synopsis / summary / findings , for each type of statistics

#  Sale price for each statistical data compiled ( - indicating period cove

red )

#  Format in which the data will be supplied ( when purchased online )

#  Purchase Cart  

[ B ]

Another important feature is : “ Statistical Priorities “ and “ Statistical Coordination “

The task entrusted to NSC is mind-boggling , given that India is a huge country of 1.37 billion people

And there is ambiguity whether “ Compilation of Statistics “ is a “ Central Subject “ , a “ State Subject “ or a “ Joint Subject “

  

The proposed law must clearly bring out , “ whose responsibility is what “ , and how are States and Govt Agencies, expected / required to “Coordinate “ with the NSC

Since NSC must act as a “ Profit making Company “ , it will need to have , as few permanent employees on its payroll , as possible

Therefore, it becomes essential that NSC develops / launches, a TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM which will enable it to compile various types of statistics , automatically and on-going basis , with as little “ human intervention “ as possible

That means :

 

Ø  No conducting of SURVEYS , using door-to-door enumerators

Ø  Using different MOBILE APPS for different surveys

Ø  Automatic compilation / display of Survey Results on NSC web site

As far as PRIORITIES are concerned , following are a few ( from among many ), that NSC may wish to consider :

[ 1 ]

Demographic Statistics

Census 2021 : an Unprecedented Opportunity                      [ 11 April 2019 ]

[ 2 ]

Employment Statistics

From BAD to MAD                                                              [ 01 June 2016 ]

ANNUAL EMPLOYMENT SURVEY ?                                         [ 26  Oct  2015 ]

Job Melas are NOT an answer !                                            [ 13  Feb  2017 ]

 

[ 3 ]

E-Commerce Statistics

Digital Dividend from Demographic Data                               [ 14 Feb 2019 ]

 

[ 4 ]

Health Statistics

Health Data Vault                                                                 [ 16 July 2019 ]

Digital Delivery of Drugs ?                                                     [ 11 Oct 2015 ]

BANMALI is the TOTAL SOLUTION                                          [ 14 Nov 2016 ]

 

 

[ 5 ]

Transport Statistics

Transport : an Integrated Logistic Plan ?                                 [ 20 Nov 2018 ]

Turning Back the Clock ?                                                        [ 31 July 2016 ]

 

[ 6 ]

Economic Offence Statistics

E - Governance ?                                                                   [  03  April  2014 ]

Integrity Index                                                                      [  05  Nov  2015  ]

 

[ 7 ]

Election Statistics

VotesApp                                                                               [ 18  Dec  2012  ]

A Blue Print for VotesApp ?                                                      [ 25 April 2017  ]

 

[ 8 ]

Skills Training Statistics

Organizing the Unorganized                                                      [ 04 Feb 2019 ]

 

[ 9 ]

“ Delivery of Service “ Statistics

I SIN >< U SIN                                                                        [ 18 Aug 2013 ]

 

[ 10 ]

Currency Flow Statistics

Currency Maps of India ?                                                           [ 08 May 2016 ]

 

[ 11 ]

TV Viewership Statistics

Thank You , Shri R S Sharmaji                                                   [ 24 Jan 2019 ]

The Future of TV Viewing ?                                                        [ 26 Mar 2019 ]

 

 

[ 12 ]

Infra Projects Statistics

Expert  System  for  Projects                                                      [ 15 Sept 2017 ]

 

 

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Dear Shri Rao Inderjit Singhji,

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Ministry of Statistics 

[   Rao.inderjit@sansad.nic.in  /  mos-planning@gov.in  ]

 

I urge you to publish my suggestions ( mentioned above ) on the web site of your Ministry

 

This will generate a lot of comments from visitors and will avoid the kind of misconception currently prevailing in the country, in respect of the proposed NRC  ( National Register for Citizenship ) bill .  

 

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21 Dec 2019

hcp@RecruitGuru.com