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The story @SCofIndia missed (or, should that be, yet another story…?) (aka those who forget history are condemned to relive it)
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The BJP has a clear majority in only 10 of the 29 state Assemblies
Otoh:
0 seats in Mizoram
0 seats in Sikkim
0 seats in Tamil Nadu.
&:
4 out of 175 in Andhra
3 out of 294 in Bengal
8 out of 70 in Delhi
1 out of 140 in Kerala
12 out of 60 in Nagaland
10 out of 147 in Orissa
1/n 3 out of 117 in Punjab
5 out of 119 in Telangana

In coalition states, the BJP's seat status is

53/243 in Bihar
20/40 seats in Goa
25/87 in J&K.
2/60 in Meghalaya
BJP has just 1516 seats of the total 4139 assembly seats in the country.
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15 June 2019 was the compliance deadline for both public and private websites mandated by RPWD Act 2016 (sec 46: Time limit for accessibility by service providers & sec 15c: Rules for Accessibility — Information and Communication Technology) of the RPWD Rules 2017 1/n 15 (c)
(i) website standard
as specified in the Guidelines for Indian Government Websites, as adopted by Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Government of India; 2/n

@hasgeek @thuscritique @aldebaran14 The right to privacy is enshrined in the Constitution. Any breach, by private or public interests, need to have laws with rules that set out the terms and conditions of that breach. In the absence of such law, the AS app 1/n @hasgeek @thuscritique @aldebaran14 and the data sharing it appears to be countenancing (eg to Health Stack) are totally illegal. It is another matter that the Constitution is not being upheld in the Courts or by the State, which has given rise to ongoing breaches by privately sponsored vested interests. 2/n

*Questions you must ask your MP. Now!*
On March 29, 2019, between 4pm and 6pm, we will meet in Mumbai to discuss the mounting costs of Aadhaar.
Venue: Moneylife Foundation, 304, Hind Service Industries Premises, Shivaji Park Seaface, Near Chaityabhoomi, Dadar West, Mumbai Join us to question those who expect to be in government, and to resist Aadhaar. And invite your MP candidates. Speakers include Reetika Khera and Vickram Crishna.

@aha_irshi @JacobusCilliers @kopalo @jackerhack @nixxin @databaazi @pranesh @fs0c131y This could be a credible argument if there was credible data that fake users are the problem. Unfortunately, the evidence points elsewhere. No brownie points for fixing real world problems, though. @aha_irshi @JacobusCilliers @kopalo @jackerhack @nixxin @databaazi @pranesh @fs0c131y So, looking up J-PAL, I find "Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence." Yet, this is entirely missing from the biometric scheme in India. Only slideshows. Actual #UIDAI data showed nearly all registrants already had documents

@williamheath @JeffJonas I'm sure this makes some sense, although he doesn't explain what happens when a key enabling record is necessarily deleted. But what really struck me was his assumption that this is all about Bad Guys. In the real world, though, communities that are a 1/n @williamheath @JeffJonas blend of self-help and helping others, an ideal of nation-states, mainly need identity resolution to sharpen the focus of assistive efforts, to ensure that help provided to A is not blocked by administrative snafus or deliberate diversion to B. 2/n

In India, we go one step ahead of all this forensic BS: we employ stockmarket billionaires as experts in designing and implementing national policy. Minor problem: the solutions are anti-national, but that is easily ignored by nationalists, including 1/n

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it would appear, those sworn to defend the Constitution. We've come a long way from the days a colonised India established fingerprints as a way to track criminals: today, their failings are used to exclude welfare beneficiaries. Of course, it is possible 2/n