All one billion Aadhaar records could be hacked and
stolen, and the government wouldn’t have to disclose it or answer any questions
about it?
Anumeha Yadav explains that Section 6 of
the Aadhaar (Sharing of Information) Regulations says:
The Aadhaar number of an
individual shall not be published, displayed or posted publicly by any person
or entity or agency.
However, at the same time, the
Aadhaar Act lacks any provision for a mandatory notice to an individual in case
of a breach of his or her information – which was a recommendation of the
Justice Shah Committee on Privacy in 2012, which was set up to lay the ground
for a comprehensive new privacy law.
Thus, under the law, Aadhaar
users have no right to be informed when a crime related to their personal data
occurs. And they cannot approach a court
directly because under Section 47 (1) of the Aadhaar Act, the Unique
Identification Authority of India has the exclusive power to make complaints in
case of any violation or breach of privacy.
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So no right to be notified and no right to file a
complaint, and as Yadav explains, the government can (and does) deny requests
under the right to information law, citing security and confidentiality
exceptions.
According to technology lawyer
Apar Gupta, “the UIDAI is a blackbox that cannot be opened even after a system
crash”.
So everyone could be at risk and not know it and not be
able to find out more.
Not good, folks.
“For the times they are a-changing.” First time I heard that line I thought he was
suggesting that the New York Times was becoming more conservative. Silly me.
Apple Is Losing America’s Classrooms to Google and Microsoft
Apple mobile operating system iOS ended 2016 with a 14%
share of new mobile devices used in Kindergarten through 12th grade, down from
26% in 2014, according to new data from research firm Futuresource
Consulting. Meanwhile, Apple's
computer-only operating systems OS X and macOS fell to a 5% share in 2016 from
8% two years earlier.
… “At the end of
the day, I can get three Chromebooks for each of the Mac devices I would have
purchased,” Steve Splichal, the superintendent of Eudora Public Schools in
Kansas told The New York Times in an interview published on Thursday.
What do I tell my International students?
US to slow processing of visas for high-skilled workers
The Trump administration on Friday said it will suspend
premium processing for H-1B visa petitions for high-skilled workers.
U.S. Citizenship and Naturalization Services (USCIS) said
the suspension — which affects an option cutting the visa petition process from
several months to two weeks — will take effect April 3 and last up to six
months.
… USCIS said the
suspension will help them work through a large backlog of non-premium
petitions.
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