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by jace 2y ago
Biometrics are not discussed much these days because Aadhaar is no longer a strictly biometric id – either at enrollment or in usage. Biometrics are not collected for toddlers and not considered reliable for under-15s, and that segment was
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by jace 2y ago
I should also point out that Aadhaar in fact attempts to capture identity itself, not merely issue a document. The founding management articulated it as a "digital atma (soul)", and the card that people use as a document today was
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by jace 2y ago
The SSN equivalent is PAN, not Aadhaar.
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by jace 2y ago
The equivalent of a US SSN in India is PAN, the Permanent Account Number issued as a tax identifier, for both individuals and other tax-paying legal persons. It has been in use for decades prior to Aadhaar.
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by jace 2y ago
Correct, and my original draft had several paragraphs attempting to explain this, but this article was going into the print edition of the newspaper where they have a very hard limit on space. All of it got dropped. Here is my 2017 attempt
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by jace 2y ago
There are a very large number of people from whom biometrics cannot be collected, or cannot be reliably collected (meaning they change rapidly): 1. Newborn babies (who are all issued Aadhaar without biometrics) 2. Children (rapid change) 3.
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by jace 2y ago
And what is the post-Aadhaar loss? Nobody knows, because there's no accounting. We're still in the "don't allow critical examination of Aadhaar" era of this regime. Also, I got my COVID-19 vaccination without Aadhaa
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by jace 2y ago
The article doesn't make an argument around biometrics. Biometrics are needed even for getting a passport or registering a property purchase, but notice how those are never brought up in any argument around Aadhaar's use of biomet
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by jace 2y ago
Not just for privacy, but broken processes and duplicitous technological claims. It doesn't solve the problems that people assume it does. It does solve other problems, which is why there's so much enthusiasm for enforcing it. But
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by jace 5y ago
You have one and only one Aadhaar number. You give it to every service provider that has internal reasons to prevent double sign-up (usually: state sponsored subsidy) Or if you don’t comply, the service provider will share their entire data
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by jace 5y ago
India's equivalent of SSN is PAN, the Permanent Account number, which predates Aadhaar by decades. DBT is also older than Aadhaar and uses IFSC + account numbers. An Aadhaar layer was added to it, wherein a new mapper from Aadhaar numb
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by jace 5y ago
It is designed to be a universal foreign key. The number is supposed to be confidential, but almost no one treats it as such, and the founding CEO of the organisation (since retired) has repeatedly argued in public that the number should be
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by jace 5y ago
Good sir, if you are required to add an Aadhaar number to an account everywhere, how is it not tracking? There are now serious proposals to require Aadhaar for social media accounts too.
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by jace 5y ago
I made Hasjob and Hasgeek, which are separate, but seeing as how everyone refers to Hasjob as Hasgeek, they're going to be merged in a bit. All feedback and ideas welcome.
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by jace 5y ago
That happens by confiscating the phone. The US fifth amendment doesn't apply in India. Anything on a device isn't safe from a police search.
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by jace 7y ago
The technical side of Aadhaar is also incredibly inept. There is several days worth of reading material at https://medium.com/karana .
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by jace 8y ago
You seem to have sat through a presentation on Aadhaar. Have you sat through any presentations on corruption? On what basis are you making comparisons with other parts of the world?
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by jace 8y ago
The numbers are not generated on the client side. An enrollment packet is, containing biometrics and demographics, for which a number will be generated using biometric deduplication server-side. The catch: only residents (not citizens) of I
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by jace 9y ago
<3 (Y u no support emoji, HN?)
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by jace 9y ago
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A data driven argument on why Marc Andreessen is wrong about Free Basics(medium.com)
37 points by jace 11y ago|1 comments
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by jace 11y ago
FWIW, TRAI has no jurisdiction over Facebook and so obviously has not passed any ruling on them. Free Basics has not been banned. The only thing TRAI has done is banning telecom operators from offering different websites at different prices
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by jace 11y ago
This order makes no mention whatsoever of Free Basics. It merely bans price-based discrimination. And there is no evidence whatsoever that Free Basics helps bring people online. Even Facebook was unable to find a single person who was new t
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by jace 11y ago
Here's the order this article is referring to: http://www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/WhatsNew/Documents/Regu...
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by jace 11y ago
> We need to build a more lasting institution to prepare in advance for future papers, have lists of people it can reach out to, and manage the hidden minutiae required to combat these issues. Which is exactly what we will do.
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by jace 11y ago
Which is why we the volunteers have figured we need to be better prepared for Act 3. Stay tuned.
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by jace 11y ago
Facebook claims 11 million supporters. The "vocal subgroup" at SaveTheInternet has only 400k. Who's shouting down whom?
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by jace 11y ago
Facebook isn't paying for any of it (apart from the developer screening process and proxy server). They expect their telco partners to bear the expenses, who naturally have no expectation of recovering it from the poor who can't a
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by jace 11y ago
Said person is an FB employee and director of public policy for India and the region. I guess she and her staff are the only people working out of Delhi, so they took a hotel room. FB's India HQ is down south in Hyderabad.
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by jace 11y ago
There is no contact information in those files (there's a bunch of them). Just a date, name and (template) comment. Mostly pointless.

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