While its been in news - Germany lashes out at Google for privacy breach - Are we Indians concerned about privacy breach of individuals in India by government or corporate. Our privacy is being breached daily in India from our call being prone to tap by service providers or agencies without any reasons, internet usage being under surveillance, monitoring bank transactions, our credit card payment histories & phone payment records by centralized systems, search engine data being under analysis, and many or other ways including records of even our pizza purchased are analysed closely by vendors.
These days when we are so much excited about UID projects we have to look about its drawbacks also. There would be a centralized system available with government with almost all details an identity can have including biometrics.
While there would be numerous benefits from such a gigantic database, this information would be available at hands of ruling class involving democratically elected politicians or undemocratic government agencies and would be prone to misuse on large scale.
India needs strong privacy laws while we proceed with UID project to protect the individuality, privacy and dignity of its citizens.
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