We are fortunate to have the Supreme Court indefinitely postpone the government fiat forcing compulsorily linking of Aadhar with almost all services/administration, besides the availing of government schemes!
The recent Cambridge Analytica controversy has revealed concrete serious charges of data breaches influencing something so important as elections.
Serious discussions by experts bring out the obvious fact of how dangerous misuse of personal data can be, in contrast with our government’s stubborn Aadhar proponents!
Mark Zukerberg of Facebook admits to the data scandal feedback and promises to take action accordingly, but not our arrogant know-it-all ‘concerned authorities’.
I am astonished that they simply refuse to see the big picture and tremendous dangers of what they may be getting us all and this nation into in the future.
Both the BJP and the Congress, as well as the JDU have reportedly used these surveillance agencies to ‘harvest’ data and use them to garner votes for their respective parties in India. The said parties all deny it vociferously and keep pointing fingers at each other.
With fake news and marketing government schemes and policies which may never see the light of day, the citizen will never know what Satyamev Jayate means!
Besides as a senior citizen, whose fingerprints are not clear, with cataract operations of both eyes and features changing with age, I am already having enough unnecessary trouble running from pillar to post basically to re-confirm my Aadhar and link it with my phone!
In the light of the above, and so many misuse/breaches of data already taken place, should we trust this and thereby future governments with our private data and biometrics?
John Eric Gomes, Porvorim
