Right To Privacy – My Take

Yesterday everybody celebrated the SC judgment on Right to Privacy. Modi haters enjoyed more because it was allegedly a blow to Modi’s rising surveillance oriented fascism. A quick chat with one of my friends from different ideology suggested the ramifications of privacy on sale could be  like companies will would have known what you ate,  When females in your home has period,  When you used condom, which color underwear lingerie, one prefers, govt would have known your behavior more than you..Tracking of your finance, behavior- a reason why it was rejected in UK. And because it was rejected in UK why should we have it anyway.

More followed, like securities concern are huge, If you have aadhar, you can become indian citizen very easily, The law of introducer is strange.. With introducer u can have aadhar, With bank account and aadhar passport, voter id, It has potential of inviting infiltration.Then these welfare schemes will go to Bangladeshis not us. Don’t know why govt taking such risks.. Just on the behest of corporate, who themselves have dual citizenships.

Most of these above use cases are like science fiction script to me. My take on this matter is let’s assume, okay aadhar is bad. Then the courts should also have said how to establish identity of an individual if not by using biometrics.  Why could not they just make playing with aadhar data a penal offense?

Reliance did not ask anybody to submit aadhar. People did that voluntarily for their greed of free data. Making Ambani a soft target is the best pass time topic of part time leftists. Judgment could have been more sensible if meelord had asked parliament to pass some amendment to aadhar act. Aadhar is an ID card and not a document of citizenship. If you are managing to become citizen with aadhar then it's a process loop hole that needs to be plugged. Money siphoning is stopped (I have my uncles in UP east who enjoyed MNREGA benefits as they sat on various positions at panchayat) in DBT schemes .Because now you are able to establish a primary key between a number, a bank account and an individual. That itself is the single reason enough to back the tool.

Aadhar data theft has one main commercial goal to be able to retrieve authentic mobile number, region, name, gender and address. This can be gold Mined by corporations. And hence this theft could have been made severely punishable.

Another fraud could be using your biometrics to forgery your identity. A case,  which is matter of concern from implementation point. We put gold in lockers. Don't we.

Supreme court has opened a Pandora Box.

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