Anivar Aravind @[email protected]

Thread on CoWin & health ID generation
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RT @anivar
India makes worlds biggest #Covid19 Vaccination drive as a Peoples registry building #surveillance Project. This is the consent collected by a temporary contract employee on a desktop when someone getting vaccinated.
https://twitter.com/anivar/status/1355121966152224770

As pointed earlier, This govt plans more aadhaar collections and heath ID generation than increasing efficiency of vaccination.
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RT @anivar
I hope @rssharma3 will respect this and won't force aadhaar for vaccinations.

In past we have seen DoT issuing Mobile Aadhaar Re-KYC order citing a non existing SC order

I really expect Govt won't do such mischievous acts this time gatekeeping public health of Indians.
https://twitter.com/anivar/status/1360259775938895873

Physical Document Verification was the most popular identification method before vaccination. Now it is being replaced with mandatory authentication with Aadhaar, if you voluntarily produced Aadhaar for Identification prior to Vaccination.

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RT @anivar
The status of people rejecting Aadhaar for Vaccinations.

BTW @AyushmanNHA took down this parameter from CoWin Dashboard, on a hurry to push Aadhaar Face Auth, violating the promises gi…
https://twitter.com/anivar/status/1379649416408145927

Cowin portal enforcing Aadhaar Facial/biometric/OTP/demographic verification (registration of Health ID without informed consent) from today.

Other verification option is absent for those who initially given Aadhaar No.

Result: Over Crowded Vaccination Centers.

Looks like your phone no is added to someone else's vaccination without any verification
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RT @vyaspranjal33
Wait What

How Careless authorities are

Why m getting this SMS

@MoHFW_GUJARAT @MoHFW_INDIA @drharshvardhan
@anivar sir how this is happening can u help me to understand
https://twitter.com/vyaspranjal33/status/1381254819160092674

Do you know how to advertise for another food delivery app in swiggy?
Dish descriptions in regional languages .
This tells to download another app "Food Robo" for better discounts.

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RT @anivar
I hope @rssharma3 will respect this and won't force aadhaar for vaccinations.

In past we have seen DoT issuing Mobile Aadhaar Re-KYC order citing a non existing SC order

I really expect Govt won't do such mischievous acts this time gatekeeping public health of Indians.
https://twitter.com/anivar/status/1360259775938895873

The status of people rejecting Aadhaar for Vaccinations.

BTW @AyushmanNHA took down this parameter from CoWin Dashboard, on a hurry to push Aadhaar Face Auth, violating the promises given in Parliament.

@rssharma3, Concealing status and Aadhaar overhead needs to be stopped.
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RT @AyushmanNHA
UIDAI's facial recognition algorithms will soon be rolled out at all vaccination centres. A pilot was launched in Jharkhand, there we have b…
https://twitter.com/AyushmanNHA/status/1379358410022395904

Uber’s facial comparison tool locked out driver after a haircut
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RT @Connect_IFAT
PressNote
@ANI @PTI_News @scroll_in @TOITelangana @NH_India @SkyNews @abcnews @thenewsminute @BBCNews @NewIndianXpress @ttindia @thewire_in @TheQuint @LiveLawIndia @dna @HuffPostIndia @Rukmini
#DriverLivesMatter you need 2 listen to the drivers #WeareIFAT #UnionPowerDriverPower https://twitter.com/Connect_IFAT/status/1377334895110807553
https://twitter.com/Connect_IFAT/status/1377589482711441412

There is also ethical issues of using Face recognition as a parameter in voter list checks. It creates biased results. There are reported issues of listing Real Twins as fakes.
Source:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=4284212044973748&id=100001549854490&sfnsn=wiwspmo

Do your Math.