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@anivar
Public interest technologist. Rants on technopolitricks. Building TechCollectives, sometimes products. Married up to @joshinaa.
Jun 12, 2023 • 19 tweets • 11 min read
The Fourth yesterday reported about a huge #CoWinDataLeak yesterday. There was a telegram Not which allowed to search against phone numbers or aadhaar for vaccine data. Exposed details includes

Family details(who took vaccination under the same number) and below fields Image This is potentially one among the largest data leaks so far and looks like everyone who took vaccination via #Cowin is part of this database. They could verify many in this DB

@b_sreejan from The Fourth done a thread here
Jan 29, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
India makes worlds biggest #Covid19 Vaccination drive as a Peoples registry building #surveillance Project. This is the consent collected by a temporary contract employee on a desktop when someone getting vaccinated. The Consent Collection noti... The above notice is on the view more link on this screen, for verifying users at a vaccination centre Image
Oct 20, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Mitron, aap chronology samajhiye

Vaccination and exclusion threat is a "Killer application" marketing possibility for Aadhaar linked Health ID

1. NN pitches
2. Takshashila preparing slide deck expanding NN's talk
3. NEGVAC and PIB release
4. Exclusive NN interview
5. This 👇 1.
Apr 12, 2020 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Starting a new thread for #ArogyaSetuApp watch
Since this is emerging as a same aadhaar like voluntary mandatory push, via PMO & Nitiayog involvement. Baseline
1. There is no success story for contract tracing via mobile will work.
2. Contact tracing is an experiment initiated by countries with high smartphone penetration
3. India's smartphone penetration is ~25% and max upto 35% (not counting people with multiple devices) .
Jan 29, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Say this loudly

@kunalkamra88's Arnab video is the first mainstream use of #Counterspeech in Indian politics.

Arnab has an active role in making violence acceptable. Kunal addressing viewers in an Arnab method keeping him as a live visual object is sparkling #counterspeech It took some time for me to remind the term, since we never used counter speech much as a way to fight dangerous speech.

There is significant research on this domain. Very relevant to India . eg. How Internetshutdowns amplify dangerous speech

Follow dangerousspeech.org
Jan 4, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Yesterday I was thrown out of a Anti-CAA counter missed call planning group for opposing that idea tooth and nail.

Doing an Anti-CAA missed call initiative is foolishness and stupidity. It exposes all protestor data to Govt via centralized number call records. The rationale i heard there was , if we don't do this "someone else" will do this.

Does it help the campaign . No
Does it protect people calling . No
Does it expose people - Yes
Does it provide verifiability - No

So avoid missed calls. You may end up in voter targeting DBs.
Dec 14, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
States should decide they won't collect any parameters other than what is defined in Citizenship act for NPR updation.

Let's understand Citizenship Registry for CAB will be derived from #Census2020 possibly via an algorithmic operation. So refuse anything more than these. In 2011 census, many of us refused Biometrics based on this and saved ourselves from enrolling for illegal Aadhaar , while giving data to census.
Nov 20, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
My experiments with ICICI's newly launched PayLater account. This seems like a UPI creditcard, but with poor implementation. This looks like another desperate account from banks to get merchant transactions in their control. Need Imobile to signup for this account. Received an invitation from bank to try it out. Signing up creates a CIBIL enquiry for 10K Overdraft even though initial credit limit allocation was 3750. This gives pl.<handle>@icici as upi handle.
Aug 14, 2018 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Just read the story. The story is more about Aadhaar eKYC mess than @paytm & how it is destroying Industry. Whole Banking Industry is now into "mandatory" Aadhaar eKYC rush for even though there is nothing makes aadhaar mandatory for a/c opening. Thread cc: @TheKenWeb sub-rule (17)(a) of Rule 9 of the PMLA Rules, 2005 as amended by Prevention of Money-laundering (Maintenance of Records) Second Amendment
Rules, 2017 clearly specifies that new account holders have upto six months to submit aadhaar.

Aug 3, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
No one put that number in your phone as per UIDAI Press release

But there are great ambitions from 2016 about built-in aadhaar certified biometric sensors on your phone.
Jul 4, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Story: How @SBICard_Connect Handles CIBIL Checks.

Exhibit 1. Multiple check against CIBIL against one application (Without even KYC Collection) Exibhit 2. By Changing Name in CIBIL as "ANIVAR REMOVEDATA" instead of removing Enquiry Information (After a long list of escalations and receiving commitment from Customer Service Head Team – SBI Card to fix it )
Jun 25, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Kid's school requested Aadhaar numbers to comply with Karnataka EDU secretary's order asking all schools to add all children's to DISE portal & children tracking system(WTF?) Of Govt with June 30 deadline.
We send a 3 page letter to principal explaining legal status quoting SC The DISE seems like yet another huge DB project to collect children details in the name of school performance reports.

This is run by National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) with MHRD backing and DPEP partnerships
Jun 18, 2018 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
At @HDFC_Bank 100feet road branch indiranagar branch to open a salary account. The Bank is refusing to accept my application without aadhaar even after I pointing PMLA rules 6months extension clause. Wrote a letter to branch manager and waiting for its acknowledgment .@HDFC_Bank Branch Manager Ajith refused to accept my fully filled application no (MF1604032804) , Extended KYC Annexture with PAN & Passport photocopies, Copies of relevant Gazette Notifications and SC orders. Bhavana K , Manager given me the rejection in writing.