-The Times of India NEW DELHI: After seeing the massive rescue operation to its completion, the Uttarakhand government, with the aid of disaster management authorities, is getting ready to release the final list of "missing" persons who can, for all practical purposes, be "presumed dead". The "missing" Database is expected to be ready by the weekend, or July 8, and will be released soon after. Sources overseeing the relief work indicated that...
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Cyber insecurity is the new normal -Preeti Singh
-The Hindustan Times A couple of months ago, I was in South Block for a meeting at the ministry of defence. Security norms dictate leaving mobile and electronic devices at the checkpoint. Imagine my horror when I came back an hour later to see one of the guards going through my iPad. This cavalier attitude towards individual privacy is illustrative of an interesting dilemma between the inevitability of a more intrusive...
More »CAG had warned last year about Uttarakhand crisis in making-Himanshu Upadhyaya
-Governance Now A CAG report dated March 15, 2013 had found Uttarakhand sitting on a time bomb, with nearly zero disaster preparedness back in Sept 2012 when the nationwide performance audit was done. Will other states, marked equally poorly in the audit, sit up and smell the coffee? The massive disaster in Uttarakhand has brought to the fore not only the old debate of ecology versus development but also thrown up...
More »PIL seeks protection of Indian govt's secret data from US snooping
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Amid reports of US cyber intelligence units snooping on secret data worldwide, a PIL filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday sought a direction to the Union government to take urgent steps to protect its official data stored on the internet and privacy of millions of Indians holding accounts on social networking sites. Petitioner Prof S N Singh said many government offices and officials use free...
More »Use Aadhaar and EMV both for retail payments
-The Economic Times An RBI-appointed panel of bankers will decide on the appropriate technology for retail payments in a month. And the choice is reportedly between Aadhaar, the biometric-based unique identity system, and EMV, a globally accepted technology standard for credit card, debit card and ATM transactions, used by Visa and MasterCard. This is baffling. Why should it be one technology standard or the other? Both Aadhaar and EMV should co-exist...
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