Lets take a moment on how billionaires have publicist who seasonally write profile stories masquerading as news / opinions for years together. A thread 🧵 on @/SarithaRai articles on @/NandanNilekani

After all - If Nandan wants you to read his publicist's piece, why just one?

https://twitter.com/NandanNilekani/status/1519590934694219776

bbc.com/news/world-asi… 6 June 2012 - Why India's identity scheme is groundbreaking

#AadhaarPR

#UPI #AppUpdate Samsung Pay play.google.com/store/apps/det… Minor bug fixes and improvements in the app... #UPI #AppUpdate Payzapp - UPI & Bill Payments play.google.com/store/apps/det… Bug Fixes and Enhancements....

#AadhaarScam - Was it the telcos / #AadhaarEcosystem who got benefited OR both - at the cost individuals - Lets dig deeper

https://twitter.com/mayhempsingh/status/1512468059948158981

How much is the revenue loss determined by CAG?
1. 637 Crore eKYC x ₹ 20 = ₹ 12740 Crores
2. 2491 authentication x ₹ 0.5 = ₹ 1245.5 Crores

₹ 13985.5 Crores - revenue loss due to non-fixation of price. UIDAI made a "concious" decision to forego the revenue, without any trail

Enable bank UPI with #Aadhaar OTP
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/90… . This is a frankenstein monster, under the garb of supporting UPI123Pay / feature phone #UPI support and is compromising security risk for a majority of users. Lets understand in a #Thread

cc @suchetadalal @dilipasbe This week @RBI launched #UPI123Pay aka a set of options to support #UPI on feature phone
rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_Pre…

UPI PIN in addition to device binding constitute the 2 factors of authentication. As any #UPI user would know, (re)setting #UPI PIN requires debit card authentication

One record for all financial assets of individual - This is hell RBI is taking us. Eliminate paper trails - They are not even cryptic about it anymore

#eRUPI #UPI Vouchers for benefits is a radical departure from #DBT. Purpose and person aware #G2P payments are here. #SaveOurPrivacy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ration_st… is digitized food stamps, but crucial digitization difference is it converts a bearer instrument like stamp / coupon into a person / purpose specific instrument, embedding automatic data emission about beneficiary upon use.

Nandan Nilekani To Join Government Panel To Curb Digital Monopolies ndtv.com/india-news/nan… via @ndtv

Irony just got its jab and #CoWIN certificate How many digital monopolies were built by Nandan

Are these countries also importing vaccines from India? Is #CoWIN being bundled here for vaccine access in the name of demand management tech? cc @anivar @asdofindia

https://twitter.com/CNBCTV18Live/status/1412023732747390987

Vietnam - e.vnexpress.net/news/news/hai-…

TN PDS defaced (and data breached?) theweek.in/news/india/202…

- @nanduhari of @technisanct

https://twitter.com/sindhan/status/1408708995150278660

The site was under 'maintenance' on Jun 27. Tweet report by DMK IT Wing person.

https://twitter.com/Sathish33403113/status/1409020663172579328?s=20

Draft Aadhaar (Authentication and Offline Verification) Regulations, 2021 - uidai.gov.in/images/Draft_A…

Draft put for consultation 'silently' by @UIDAI on May 20, 2021 and closing by June 2, 2021.

Some highlights on thread.

@SFLCin @internetfreedom @nixxin The proposed regulations will supersede the Aadhaar (Authentication) Regulations, 2016 uidai.gov.in/images/regulat…

Context : This is the regulation relating to Authentication coming after #Aadhaar Amendments and the Aadhaar Good Governance Rules 2020

From one-stop shop to no-stop shop: An e-government stage model sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Proactive service delivery means that the government delivers a service to a citizen when a life event occurs, without the citizen having to request the service.

Conceptual diagram of "State Family Database" Platform in proposed @TNeGA_Official RFP released by previous #ADMK government. Such privacy violating centralized databases destroy self respect of people and deny fundamental right to privacy. 1/ Request @ManoMLA @mkstalin initiate public consultation before proceeding with anti-people database projects initiated by previous regime. #SaveOurPrivacy #ScrapSFDB cc @WriterRavikumar @sindhan @SundarrajanG

A responsible opposition will highlight how government got taken for ride by agenda driven think tanks which when failed - point fingers about 'responsible opposition'.

Own up your failures - Billionaire funded think tanks

https://twitter.com/acorn/status/1391983408079806465

Own your mess up on tech-fetishness - You wanted Aadhaar based vaccination - while reality is - a much 'liberal' CoWIN that accomodates all IDs is spectacularly failing.

https://twitter.com/logic/status/1317649901866479618

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CAG has "External members" in Audit Advisory Board - Nandan Nilekani (and some of his colleagues) were in 9th Audit advisory board -

https://twitter.com/logic/status/1347117174280704001?s=20

https://twitter.com/digitaldutta/status/1391708730417369089

10th Audit Advisory board is here - Nandan is not there, but do you spot the problem?

Unpopular opinion-We did terrible #AEFI-because #CoWIN was reduced to Aadhaar , facial recognition, vaccination certificates, APIs and what not - forgetting primary purpose was #AEFI management. Leave your hate for Prof, "Correlation is not Causation", think about the problem. 1/

https://twitter.com/ShamikaRavi/status/1391406497440010247

The scale of #AEFI *from social media* is collated under #VAERS_India - by @bulletmanV

A proper #AEFI management would have meant - feedback loops to vaccine research, *that* much less loss of lives. Keep your *no questions on vaccines* koolaid at home FFS.

This was joke 4 years before - Its reality today. #Thread on #Aadhaar for oxygen

https://twitter.com/AisiTaisiDemo/status/875679575363145728

Jaipur - #Oxygen #Aadhaar

https://mobile.twitter.com/__dewdrops/status/1386263999608545281

Preconditioning #Aadhaar for life saving drug is cruel @RAKRI1 Please fix this ASAP @Vijayabaskarofl cc @no2uid

https://twitter.com/narayananh/status/1386292008189272065

Nagpur - #Remdesivir #Aadhaar

https://twitter.com/PatniGaurav/status/1384371451902398466

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Tracking the evolution of #CoWIN from message string differences. Did you know if you have a name longer than 50 characters, you can't get vaccinated ? cc @internetfreedom @SFLCin #VaccinationForAll

https://twitter.com/asdofindia/status/1350782268046905352

Report AEFI is no longer available in self service app, possibly moved out to vaccinator app. One could still 'report' though.

WTF is this @ncert ? Why is this in Class X student to learn while "Understanding Economic Development"?

cc @tractor2twitrr #FarmersProtest diksha.gov.in/play/collectio… - See for yourself

#KillerLoanApps - #Update - the fraudsters are *really* trying very hard to stay afloat.

Lets look at what #LoanBaba is doing.

First of all - @GooglePlay updated policy is humbug - play.google.com/store/apps/det… - They managed to get their app listed and got ~3 lakh installs Their site loanbaba.top now has more information - a widget to calculate loan disbursement / repayment, E-Sign is prominently advertised and even NBFC license certificate of GOYAL Associates loanbaba.top/public/images/…

Latest MLM #Fraud that is currently hot. @Cyberdost @CyberCrimeshyd @CyberCrimePSCyb
Shared Economy/Shared Power is the name
1. spbdd.com
2. mipower.in

@cpcybd recently bursted #SharedBk / Shared Bike - following same MLM model newsmeter.in/crime/shared-b…

https://twitter.com/iSaneTech/status/1356540258733670400

koodous.com/apks/355a6542d… - MiPower App - claiming to be subsidiary of @XiaomiIndia