Privacy 3.0 by Rahul Matthan

Author:Rahul Matthan
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Published: 2018-07-06T16:00:00+00:00

Even though every department of the Indian government has been collecting data from its citizens in various formats for decades, these databases are incapable of talking to each other. Each department collects information in its own unique format and stores it in silos that are not designed to be interoperable. As a result, it is difficult to cross-reference the BPL (below poverty line) database with the LPG (liquid petroleum gas) database, or the telecom subscriber database with the income tax database – despite the fact that the benefit of doing so to check fraud or detect defaulters is obvious.

In India, our identity lies at the intersection of multiple identity documents. We are the composite of the various government services that we avail of. In many ways, this multiplicity of identities is our primary line of defence against identity theft in the absence of a formal law. Since no one has confidence in any one form of identification, in order to impersonate someone’s identity, you will have to forge multiple documents. And then, if you want to make the identity theft effective, you will have to repeat that effort with multiple service providers. This is probably why, despite the fact that the government and various private service providers have been collecting data about us for years, there have been no serious incidents of identity fraud. The fact that government databases are maintained in silos, incapable of speaking with each other, and that the proof of identity that they issue is universally mistrusted is what has kept us safe for all these years in the absence of a privacy law.

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