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Srinivas Kodali | శ్రీనివాస్ కొడాలి @digitaldutta
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Next Talk: Weaponising Data For Politics by @ShivamShankarS #FifthEl
Political Parties have invested al-teast $0.5 billion on data campaigns in India #FifthEl
First time Indian heard about data being manipulated for elections was from CambridgeAnalytica #FifthEl
The tech stack for political campaigns is basic python for crawling and d3.js for vis and android apps #FifthEl
There is lot of public data available on government websites which can be used to target voters #FifthEl
There are algorithms to co-relate surname of a person to the caste of the person #FifthEl
Relationships and details of family are mapped by political volunteers #FifthEl
Political Parties have so much free labour. People liked being involved in strategising for elections #FifthEl
Election Commission data and details of caste one can find what community is voting for whom #FifthEl
Intuition of political volunteers on voting patterns based on caste always true #FifthEl
Data brokers sell all kind of information for very affordable prices #FifthEl
Political parties have used electrical bills to identify socio economic patterns #FifthEl
WhatsApp is major tool for political campaigns. 2014 elections had 9k-18k whatsapp groups and Karnataka 2018 elections alone had 20k whatsapp groups. #FifthEl
Caste groups and surveys for specific groups to identify election promises to do political propaganda is how fake news starts. #FifthEl
Political parties are now collecting data on beneficiaries to do targeted campaigns. They are even considering to acquire call data records to identify network patterns #FifthEl
There is not enough provisions to safeguard data. No action was taken against any of the #Aadhaar leaks. #FifthEl
Need self regulation by @TwitterIndia @Facebook @WhatsApp to counter fake news, protect personal data of citizens. #FifthEl
WhatsApp research on Fake News may not be enough #FifthEl
We need to do more to protect citizen's data. India needs a data protection law yesterday, Not tomorrow. #FifthEl
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A thread on all the #Aadhaar data leaks from Andhra Pradesh. The first leak I reported about AP was part of my report on why leaks are happening. The AP government published details of 2 crore residents Aadhaar, bank account numbers, phone numbers as MS Access databases online
Another one part of the same report was AP NREGA website publishing details of another 1,12,99,803 residents #Aadhaar numbers and bank account details.
This NREGA #Aadhaar data leaked again from a different portal. Turns out everyone has everyone's data at multiple databases.
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Reported a security issue of #Aadhaar demographic authentication API without any access restriction & was on unsecured protocols. This allows third parties to access APIs without being a AuA. Similar security issue has been previously reported. hackernoon.com/abusing-aadhaa…
If you saw demographic authentications for your #Aadhaar on UIDAI portal, but you haven't done it. It's likely a third party who is trying to verify your details. As demographic authentication does not require any permission from the Aadhaar holder
Aadhaar is truly a broken system designed by people who have no idea about Information security, apart from the vested interest to make profits from it
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It has always been said #Aadhaar is being linked to religion and caste information, apart from occupation. While UIDAI is not doing it, other government departments are. Here is proof that UIDAI has no idea what all is being linked to your unique id. Website reported early today.
It's a live public website yet to be closed down. Reported it to multiple agencies. More details later.
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10 Mega Infrastructure projects in #India

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45 Days Of @ElvisCostello: a twitter megathread in anticipation of the Oct 12 release date of LOOK NOW, the new LP by Elvis Costello & The Imposters

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As PM @narendramodi 's govt steps into its 5th year, I keep wondering how they won so many elections, despite the constant outrage on English & Social media.

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