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RARE WISE Judgement. What a statement to make. Great insult to Supreme Court and the entire judiciary. Only journalists have wisdom and judges are fools as per your statement. Please tone down. Dont credit your self of too much of wisdom and intelligence which you don’t possess.
This is India, there is no link between law and order and public life. The court tells one thing, the police the other, senators another and businesses all together different thing. India is a chaotic banana republic.
Shekhar Gupta very rightly says, to quote from this article: “What does privacy mean to somebody who has to face daily humiliation at some sarkari office just for that rubber stamp on a piece of paper confirming she is, who she actually is. For her Aadhaar brings identity, and a new beginning. Why should she be dragged into the fight for the privacy concerns of the entitled few?”
I have always understood by the word “privacy”, my ‘private space’. In terms of my physical abode where I actually live, or the space where my thoughts live (whatever they may be worth). Neighbors or acquaintances shouldn’t feel free to enter ‘my space’, or to even invite me to ‘their space’. For a drink or a chat or whatever. Now, the second part of my privacy is tricky; you may find it funny or affected: even books, or other’s thoughts should not enter MY ‘thought space’ (That’s why I “comment” on most articles without actually reading them, haha).
Shekhar has very rightly said above, that — think of…for God sake think of a truly poor person for whom Aadhar is doing a great service! If he goes to some office for some work, he is so over awed by the sahib sitting in front of him that he cannot collect the words that he came to say and waited for an hour in the queue to say. And barely when he is about to start speaking, somebody from behind is already shouldering him sideways and the sahib has already started looking in that person’s direction…life is very cruel, guys! If Aadhar makes it simpler for our people for whom it was meant, then who cares for what it does for whosoever’s privacy? The poor couldn’t care less about who has got what data about them; in fact they feel complimented if they receive an SMS that someone is trying to sell them something! Those who think their data matters, do not really matter beyond the realm of self-importance. I mean, who wants to assassinate or rob every well clad person in this world?!
Excellent analysis!! Poor deserve to have identity first and privacy is secondary. Intellectual upper crust will be seen in JNU, India International Centre, India Habitat Centre or the Press Club of India or busy filing PIL either in the High Courts or Supreme Court but alas have they really seen the sufferings of the poor but not concerned about their identity.
This was much polite response then your previous article on adhaar. We need truly grounded non jnu product like you to maintain the discource in the right perspective. The whole Privacy drama was mere show off bussiness and menifestetion off nihilist mindset and we need to clean this superfecial intellectual durt by just becoming realist.
Aadhaar had strayed from its original mandate. Few would expect as nihilistic a judgment as the entire edifice being struck down by the apex court. However, it has limited the scheme closer to what it was originally designed for. Consider the physical effort involved in linking a billion mobile phones to Aadhaar, or each bank account. Maximum government, on steroids. Private entities mining Aadhaar data for commercial purposes was a transgression. The government needs to review the security protocols for keeping the data safe. It is being hacked into and sold for peanuts. Even on PDS, the system has started getting compromised. Justice Chandrachud is proving to be increasingly deserving of the honour that awaits him in November 2022.
RARE WISE Judgement. What a statement to make. Great insult to Supreme Court and the entire judiciary. Only journalists have wisdom and judges are fools as per your statement. Please tone down. Dont credit your self of too much of wisdom and intelligence which you don’t possess.
This is India, there is no link between law and order and public life. The court tells one thing, the police the other, senators another and businesses all together different thing. India is a chaotic banana republic.
Shekhar Gupta very rightly says, to quote from this article: “What does privacy mean to somebody who has to face daily humiliation at some sarkari office just for that rubber stamp on a piece of paper confirming she is, who she actually is. For her Aadhaar brings identity, and a new beginning. Why should she be dragged into the fight for the privacy concerns of the entitled few?”
I have always understood by the word “privacy”, my ‘private space’. In terms of my physical abode where I actually live, or the space where my thoughts live (whatever they may be worth). Neighbors or acquaintances shouldn’t feel free to enter ‘my space’, or to even invite me to ‘their space’. For a drink or a chat or whatever. Now, the second part of my privacy is tricky; you may find it funny or affected: even books, or other’s thoughts should not enter MY ‘thought space’ (That’s why I “comment” on most articles without actually reading them, haha).
Shekhar has very rightly said above, that — think of…for God sake think of a truly poor person for whom Aadhar is doing a great service! If he goes to some office for some work, he is so over awed by the sahib sitting in front of him that he cannot collect the words that he came to say and waited for an hour in the queue to say. And barely when he is about to start speaking, somebody from behind is already shouldering him sideways and the sahib has already started looking in that person’s direction…life is very cruel, guys! If Aadhar makes it simpler for our people for whom it was meant, then who cares for what it does for whosoever’s privacy? The poor couldn’t care less about who has got what data about them; in fact they feel complimented if they receive an SMS that someone is trying to sell them something! Those who think their data matters, do not really matter beyond the realm of self-importance. I mean, who wants to assassinate or rob every well clad person in this world?!
Excellent analysis!! Poor deserve to have identity first and privacy is secondary. Intellectual upper crust will be seen in JNU, India International Centre, India Habitat Centre or the Press Club of India or busy filing PIL either in the High Courts or Supreme Court but alas have they really seen the sufferings of the poor but not concerned about their identity.
This was much polite response then your previous article on adhaar. We need truly grounded non jnu product like you to maintain the discource in the right perspective. The whole Privacy drama was mere show off bussiness and menifestetion off nihilist mindset and we need to clean this superfecial intellectual durt by just becoming realist.
The judgment is 1,448 pages. As much as the learned judges, one admires the incredibly long hours the stenographers must be putting in …
Aadhaar had strayed from its original mandate. Few would expect as nihilistic a judgment as the entire edifice being struck down by the apex court. However, it has limited the scheme closer to what it was originally designed for. Consider the physical effort involved in linking a billion mobile phones to Aadhaar, or each bank account. Maximum government, on steroids. Private entities mining Aadhaar data for commercial purposes was a transgression. The government needs to review the security protocols for keeping the data safe. It is being hacked into and sold for peanuts. Even on PDS, the system has started getting compromised. Justice Chandrachud is proving to be increasingly deserving of the honour that awaits him in November 2022.