-TheWire.in A report points at how a large number of Muslims feel they are implicated in terrorism cases, Dalits for petty crimes, and Adivasis for being Maoists. Muslim representation in the police force remains abysmally low whereas the community continues to have a disproportionately high representation in prisons, a report brought out by Common Cause and the Lokniti-Programme for Comparative Democracy at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) has...
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Big Data, Large Concerns -Amba Kak & Jason Schultz
-The Indian Express Consent and accountability should be at the core of the new privacy law. The Supreme Court recently affirmed a fundamental right to privacy. The government is now moving to enact a data privacy law, the Justice Shri Krishna Committee has released a comprehensive report and the consultation process is coming to a close. Multiple legal challenges against Aadhaar — many involving citizens’ privacy — are being heard before...
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-The Times of India SURAT (Gujarat): Even as police are trying to reach the root of biometric Data Theft racket done to pilfer food grains issued to poor people, another scam of tampering with Aadhar data has been exposed in the city. The accused Hiren Prajapati, 26 and Prashant Pradhan, 20, both residents of Pandesara, were modifying the Aadhar Card data of individuals using a rubber thumb. They were arrested on Saturday...
More »It's 2018 and into the bin the Aadhaar must go -Mitali Saran
-Business Standard It's hurting the people, violating their fundamental rights, including the right to privacy and the right to life, and it's absurd Happy new year! The new year is traditionally our chance to reflect soberly on what a big pile of doo-doo the previous year was. It’s a chance to admit that we stepped in poo, and there’s nothing to do but to hose off our shoes, and resolve to step...
More »Aadhaar whistleblower who first called UIDAI -Rachna Khaira
-The Tribune Village-Level Entrepreneur reported Data Theft to authority, no one took heed Jalandhar: Thirty-two-year-old Bharat Bhushan Gupta is the man who reported the matter of illegitimate Aadhaar data access to The Tribune, which was followed up by the paper with an investigation of its own, aided by this whistleblower. However, he had first attempted to take an even more appropriate channel, approaching the UIDAI. The Jalandhar-based Village-Level Entrepreneur (VLE) was on December...
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