Unusually Uncertain

परिचय इतना , इतिहास यही ,
उमड़ी कल थी , मिट आज चली

[Neha Patel @Neha_S_Patel]

In the last 12 months, my mother has done KYC 10 times in SBI.

10 TIMES.

Same person. Same bank. Same documents.

How many times does a customer have to prove that she is actually herself?

This is not KYC anymore.

This is harassment. Absolute madness.

[www.sidin.co @sidin]

All the frontier labs are losing money.

But we knew this in India long back.

Jo SOTA hai voh khota hai.

[Jyotsana Rangeen @JyotsanaRangee3]

Denied entry at PVR with my emergency hypo kit despite explaining I have #Type1diabetes The manager even said, "If you have this condition, you shouldn't come to watch a movie."

This is discrimination. Your staff need urgent awareness training. @_PVRCinemas

[Srinivas Kodali @digitaldutta]

Imagine the police knowing how much money you have in your bank account for every petty case filed on you? That account is getting empty because the cops now how much they can squeeze out of you. You don’t care for #privacy because you have nothing to hide? Think Again

[Woke Eminent @WokePandemic]

Man applied for death certificate of his father
But instead the govt issued his own death certificate

And since last 3 years he is suffering the consequences of he being officially dead in official records

His Aadhar card got suspended and he is not able to get benefit of any Govt scheme or any services wherever Aadhar card is required

Is there a government policy or framework to compensate citizens for the financial loss, mental harassment, and denial of scheme benefits caused by administrative negligence?

[Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal]

Do read ans understand the implications of this bill passed by voice vote today. @internetfreedom @roadscholarz @EmergingRoy

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

PM's assurance wasn't enough to vouch safe their security.

This story is for the government to ponder and also those handles from media here that hounded a 15 year old student, drove violent and abusive commentary against her- eventually driving her and her mother out of their home.

[Apoorvanand अपूर्वानंद @Apoorvanand__]

Devious! And the SC, which did not have time to see the video of violence, agrees to hear it. All of us have a duty to stand by our youth against this coordinated attack on them.

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

The Union Government of India used its entire ecosystem including police, media and social media followers to get 4 kids to post apology videos. A very impressive achievement.

[Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal]

We have bad backs because of their bad roads. We have ugly cities because of their hoardings. We have no pavements because of their corruption! But they get our tax money because they have back pain?

[kuldeep @ku1deep]

My name is written in hindi as कुलदीप . There is exactly one way of writing my name in Hindi which is because it is a phonetic script.

My name in English can be written as Kuldip, Kuldeep, Kuldaep or even Kuldyp.

The Indian state knows this. but I am required to defend my eligibility as a voter because the vowels used in my name during the year of my birth and the year I got my aadhar card made and the year I became eligible to vote are different.

My name in hindi remains the same but I am being told that I need to defend my status as a voter because the indian state values English more than hindi.

The party in power is doing this to me. The party in power believes hindi is the national language. The ECI which I believe now to have become an instrument of the party in power, should really know better and do better.

[Unusually Uncertain @UnuUnc]

Revenging?

[Saurabh Sharma @saurabhsherry]

When a Reuters reporter walked ⁠past the van last week, one computer display inside showed his face with a green rectangular box around it and a "face accuracy" match metric next to it. Soon after, a police officer inside shut the van's window. I report with @MunsifV
https://t.co/a9qGlYcP3Q

[Unusually Uncertain @UnuUnc]

Technology should service humanities, not otherwise.

[Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal]

If they were serious @maheshperi would have been on that task force!

[Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal]

So parliament opens today. Shouldn’t we the people demand a full explanation from @nsitharaman @FinMinIndia @RBI ?? This is scandalous- our money is no longer safe. @MoneylifeF had one example of Rs1 crore vanishing from the Chandigarh account of a Sr citizen maintained for her use by her NRI doctor son. The big issue here is that customers struggle to prove they are victims of fraud. Having said that we have not seen rampant fraud as described by Tamal, who is a banking expert. Maybe time to seek details!

[Unusually Uncertain @UnuUnc]

Shameless

[Joy @Joydas]

Nandan Nilekani will lead a high powered committee on Education Reforms. Now students will get a new Card which is mandatory for every student and they can’t appear in any exam without it but possessing that card won’t be proof that they are students of any institution

[Pritesh Shah @priteshshah_]

Samay kaise badal gaya ek waqt tha you criticised Nandan Nilekani and now you are taqqing him😁😁😁

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

Let me tell you where this is going, and what the Nandan Nilekani committee for exams is broadly going to recommend and why:

1. Nandan Nilekani has a standard playbook: create "Digital Public Infrastructure", create a digital identity and try and build 100% national coverage for this. He has a single playbook for government that he and Ispirit have used in the past, and you can expect the same.

This Playbook has two key parts: identity and interchange infrastructure.

2. The identity: One part of this Playbook already exists... the ID, specifically the Apaar ID. They've done: Aadhaar (ID), UHID(Health), Apaar ID(Education), FasTag(Transportation).
Every crisis is an opportunity for our Tech godman. COVID was used create UHID without consent during vaccination.

The Apaar ID, which schools have forced students to get and link to Aadhaar, will be used here. The idea was always that these would be used for examinations.

3. The infrastructure is the second part: IT services companies benefit from the deployment of this infrastructure. Look at banking , GSTN and govt services and you can see who benefits and how. There's sometimes conflict of interest for some people but who cares.

4. The people: You need to look at the people in this committee and ecosystem that will be built around it. Some of them will be old affiliates... You'll see the former Aadhaar "volunteers" in different parts of it, and in the business that get built around it. Guess who backs ekstep and who is there. If you start a people map, you'll see a pattern. Earlier omidiyar network was involved and now I'm sure the Bill and Melinda gates foundation (some affiliates there) might be interested.

There's a pattern but if course, even lots of correlation may not be causation.

5. The committee will recommend the usage of Apaar ID and exam systems that use them. They might recommend an authority to manage them similar to UIDAI, or just coopt or infiltrate NTA. There are areas where Nilenani influence remains: NPCI, various RBI committes mapping its future. During COVID, in Cowin and the National Health Authority, affiliates were involved, though that didn't end well.

6. We need to be conscious that this is a part of the citizen mapping plan: the Aadhaar plan, which maps and tracks us from, in their words "cradle to grave". Multiple IDs linked to Aadhaar give it a sense of permanence and help with dedupe across databases. All this eventually is used to build, as the Aadhaar related state resident data hubs said “a 360 degree citizen profile”, and that's the surveillance infrastructure. All touchpoints of your file, mapped for surveillance. Fed into NATGRID.

7. I should clarify that this isn't a Narendra Modi plan. This precedes his ascension to power: the Congress was already setting some parts of it up. Guess who worked with them on it? The bureaucracy wants this and the politicians get coopted.

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Of course, I'm not being serious. This is all a joke. A worst case scenario that probably isn't true. Just a silly nightmare for civil liberties. This is a parody account and a parody comment.