Nightmare ? #Aadhar
#Privacy #DataProtection
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Imagine this scenario :
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A
mischief-monger types in Google : “ Justice
Dipak Misra “
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Selects
: Videos
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Finds
: About 40,700
results ( 0.12 seconds )
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From this video, extracts “ Audio profile “ of Justice Misra’s speech ,
using :
Audio Converter
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Pastes this “ Audio Profile “ into :
which sounds exactly like
Justice Misra ! ( You too can try this for fun ! It is free )
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Or , for an even better sounding /
much more realistic voice of Justice Misra, pastes this at :
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Now he looks up :
This will help him replace the stage
and the persons sharing the dais with
Justice Misra ( from the above-linked video ) , with the background of the
other
Judges sharing the Supreme Court bench !
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What he now needs , is a “ judgement speech “ that he wants Justice
Misra’s fake / re-mixed, video to deliver in his realistic sounding “ digital voice “ , using indistinguishable facial
features / gestures / mannerism / expressions etc that would “ fool “ the most
tech-savvy
Here is a speech drafted by me :
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Dear Petitioners and
Opponents :
For past few months, we have heard
arguments from the learned advocates of , both the petitioners and of the
government , in respect of the legitimacy of linking Aadhar ID to a large
number of government schemes
We have been told that such universal
linkages will take away a citizen’s fundamental “ Right to Privacy “ and lead
to a “ Surveillance State “ having draconian powers over the citizens
At the same time, we have been
keeping a close watch on the following developments :
# With each
passing day , millions of Indian Citizens are getting access to
Internet
# These
millions are daily downloading millions of Mobile Apps ( including
Mobile
wallets ) and providing personal data to millions of E Commerce web
sites / Search Engines / Social Media web sites /
Messaging applications /
Fintech
services / Travel services etc , using GPS enabled Smart phones /
Glasses
/ Wrist Bands / Smart Watches / Home Assistant Devices etc
# According to one study,
people typically touch their phones 2,617 times per
day ,
leaving a particularly enticing trail of data to mine
# Facebook is even
scanning user posts in the US and some other countries for
signs of
possible suicidal thoughts, without giving users a choice of opting out
of the
scans . Who has access to that information ?
# Mindstrong Health, a
mental health start-up has developed a research
platform to
continuously monitor users’ phone habits , looking at changes in
taps and
clicks for hints about mood and memory changes associated with
depression .
Thousands of
AI start-ups are daily launching hundreds of such
mobile-based
services which are offered FREE to anyone
# The data
provided by Indian Citizens for getting an Aadhar ID, is miniscule
in
comparison with the personal / private data that the Citizens are already
providing to these non-state agencies
# Most
citizens , while accessing such services are agreeing that the service
provider can use their personal data in any way it deems fit and share it with
anyone else , without telling / informing the user as to the actual usage or
its sharing
# The number of
Internet-connected devices ( without doubt , GPS
enabled ) are growing exponentially and expected to reach 50 device per
person
by 2020
# Each of these
device will be embedded with micro-sensors which will pick-up
all
the personal / private conversations of a user and transmit it to the
Central
servers of , not only the device manufacturers but also of the Internet
Service
providers involved .
At this
stage , we urge the Petitioners to remember that many of tomorrows
Internet
Service Providers , would be beaming internet from Satellites and
balloons ,
located thousands of kilometres above India and will not be subject
to any
Indian Regulatory Authority
For collecting /
transmitting the personal / private data of the users , these IoT
devices will carry an
automatic “ Activation Clause / Terms“ which will grant to
these devices,
unfettered rights ( by the user ) to do so , the moment it gets
switched on for the
first time or the moment the packaging box is opened !
# European Union is
preparing legislation to force companies to turn over
customers’
personal data when requested, even if it is stored on servers
outside the bloc .
The planned law would apply to all companies around the
world that do
business in European Union
# Digital borders are a
growing global issue in an era where big companies
operate cloud
networks of giant data centres which means an individual’s data
can reside
anywhere
# Advances in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / AR / VR
/ Hepatic
Devices
/ Holograms etc are progressing so rapidly that , as per recent
scientific
predictions, by 2022 Robots will
become commonplace in most
middle-income homes, able to reliably read lips and recognize face, mouth
and
hand gestures. All toys will be “smart” with built-in machine learning
# Scientists also seem to
agree that content in all of its form ( textual - audio –
video –
sensory ) , generated by all human beings on the earth will get
captured
automatically / continuously and flow seamlessly , across billions of
internet
connected devices and will no more remain confined to a few servers
All of this
will happen involuntarily and an individual will have neither any say
on this nor
will anyone be able to opt-out from this scenario. This flow of a
person’s
private data will start from birth
# Technology has advanced
so far – and continues to accelerate even faster –
that it is
possible to treat “ Content ( personal / private data ) “ like an air
molecule ,
which keeps travelling freely around the earth and gets inhaled a
trillion
times ( content consumption ) by a
billion humans . Introduction of 5G
and Li-Fi
technologies will speed up this process even further
# With the arrival of
Quantum Computing , it will soon become possible for the
same content
( personal / private data ) , to exist simultaneously at multiple
places , but
in differing formats
A “
Text Posting “ on Facebook may well appear on different media as
Voice
or Image or Smell or Touch !
In light of these considerations, this court has reached following
conclusions :
# For delivering of different kind of services by the
Government to the citizens , Aadhar
ID is essential
# The data required to be submitted for getting Aadhar ID is
minimum and poses no
danger to the privacy of the citizens
# For obtaining services from private parties , it is up to
the citizen concerned to decide
if he wants to furnish his Aadhar ID or not .
In case of his unwillingness, he may
have to forgo such service
# It is up to the Legislative wing to examine as to what
extent it can protect the
private / personal data of a citizen from getting
“ mis-used “ by Private parties , and
whether enacting an appropriate DATA PROTECTION
LAW , can serve this purpose ,
in a situation where the citizens are willingly
parting with such data to all-and-sundry
, and explicitly authorizing these Private
parties for unfettered / unlimited use of such
Data
While considering to enact such LAW ,
government should consider the enforceability
of such a law and whether it should be
government or the aggrieved citizen who need
to lodge a complaint for a breach of the
agreement entered into by the citizen and
the private party and to which , the government
is NOT a party , nor has any
knowledge of the terms and conditions of such
an agreement
# The court directs the government to ensure that
requirement of Aadhar is restricted
only to the essential services being
delivered by various government agencies and
not extended to non-essential services in a
frivolous manner
# The court further directs the government that even in case
of essential services , no
citizen is ever denied a service just
because he is unable to provide Aadhar ID
# The petition stands dismissed
SIGNED : Justice Dipal Misra
Date : 05 March
2018
FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE
READERS :
Parallel to
the Theory
of Thermodynamics , I would like to propound the
following
as far as the “ Theory of Information “ is concerned :
“
Like Entropy , content keeps growing with each and every human
interaction
, either with other humans or with his environment , and content
can no longer remain hidden , nor can it be
destroyed “
Now , I await some IT geek to create a Video as described by me here (
clearly marked “ fake “ ) , and send to
me on……hcp@RecruitGuru.com
05 March 2018
www.hemenparekh.in
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