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‘No debate on its potential for tracking individuals, institutions' [image: Doubts arise: The UID project is being pushed without Parliament's nod or a privacy bill policy in place. — File photo: M.A. Sriram] Doubts arise: The UID project is being pushed without Parliament's nod or a privacy bill policy in place. — File photo: M.A. Sriram While the Unique Identification (UID) project is being pushed on the plank of ensuring better delivery of services to the poor, the potential it holds for tracking, profiling and tagging individuals and institutions is not even being publicly debated, warned Usha Ramanathan, law researcher who works on the jurisprudence of law, poverty and rights. Speaking on the implications of the UID project, organised by ‘Say no to UID Campaign' here on Friday, she said that the exercise would eventually allow convergence of data from various agencies — such as National Intelligence Grid, Public Information Infrastructure Project and the National Population Register — making it a huge data pool of information with no clarity on the logic and objective of such a mammoth exercise. *No groundwork* The project was being pushed without Parliament's nod, a feasibility study on collection of biometric data on such a large scale or even a privacy bill policy in place, she said, adding that UID Authority was systematically blocking information by refusing to answer any questions. Ms. Ramanathan said that the field of information collection was being increased clandestinely, and there was no limit to the area of inquiry. Mobile phone numbers and email ids were being sought in some places as “voluntary information”, but people were often not told that they were not voluntary, she said. *Corporate interest* The exercise, she said, was also providing a great opportunity to the corporate sector, especially the biometric industry. Some of the companies being brought in for information collection were of highly questionable credentials, she added. The data gathering through the UID project had the potential “to destroy democracy as we know it now” and “change the equation between the people and the state,” said Ms. Ramanathan. ** ------------------------------ * ‘UID Authority is not answering any questions' ‘Data gathering of UID has potential to destroy democracy'* ------------------------------ http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article960035.ece -- Adv Kamayani Bali Mahabal +919820749204 skype-lawyercumactivist The UID project is going to do almost exactly the same thing which the predecessors of Hitler did, else how is it that Germany always had the lists of Jewish names even prior to the arrival of the Nazis? The Nazis got these lists with the help of IBM which was in the 'census' business that included racial census that entailed not only count the Jews but also identifying them. At the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, there is an exhibit of an IBM Hollerith D-11 card sorting machine that was responsible for organising the census of 1933 that first identified the Jews. *SAY NO TO UID CAMPAIGN- SPREAD THE WORD AND JOIN FB GROUP* *http://aadhararticles.blogspot.com/ http://questioningaadhaar.blogspot.com/* http://www.youtube.com/my_playlists?p=B67A798223F96E73 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
