Dear Nilanjana,
Just read your following article :
Make our digital backyard safe
- where you write :
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The prime reason for our lackadaisical attitude is that most Indians don’t value privacy.
We are yet to register the value of personal information — the actual monetary, marketable value.
My personal data, for instance, costs roughly $2.
If I take that as an average, then at least $2 billion worth of data belonging to 1.3 billion Indians are at stake here.
Which is why, when this data is taken without consent, it is a financial crime.
Yes, digitisation is the future. But let’s first plug the social, institutional and systemic weaknesses in our systems.
Following is my suggestion for plugging the “ Systemic Weakness “ :
Digital Dividend from Demographic Data [ 4 D ]
With regards,
Hemen
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