When did @NandanNilekani replaced @dilipasbe ?
https://www.medianama.com/2021/01/223-npci-open-source-platform-upi-nilekani/
Accountability bypass repeating once again
---
RT @thelegalsquad
An RTI initially filed with @MoHFW_INDIA to seek info. on Co-WIN app, was transferred to @GoI_MeitY
Info. sought: people and govt dept involved in creation of app; Audit measures that exist to check for misuse of the personal data etc
Reply by @GoI_MeitY: No info. is available
https://twitter.com/thelegalsquad/status/1351859301116100614
RT @logic
The mandatory #Aadhaar is coming via @digilocker_ind. Also all of this happening without a #DataProtectionLaw in place. #DataLoot
RT @logic
This is not to say - don't get vaccinated. By all means do - but care about the your and others' personal health data now longitudinally collected WITHOUT your consent to create the #healthid by #CowinApp when there is no #DataProtectionLaw. Let that sink in. #
RT @logic
Why does @MoHFW_INDIA not give option to people not to create #HealthID and 'hardcodes' wadh to make every authentication #eKYC ?
Because someone has taught them the way to 'hardcoding' fascism in code is far tougher to untangle than specifying in files https://twitter.com/logic/status/1221717072939376640
RT @logic
How do we know if any #Aadhaar biometric authentication call is #Auth / #eKYC ? From UIDAI's API documentation - 'wadh' parameter in PID block(where fingerprint is held) is the parameter that differentiates.
WADH should be empty for auth, filled for eKYC
https://uidai.gov.in/images/resource/aadhaar_ekyc_api_2_5.pdf
RT @logic
But what happens you are one of those students under the age of 18 or those poor folks in rural India who have #Aadhaar as only ID Proof ?
The individual should still be provided option to create the health ID / not right ? That's what the policy above said no ?
RT @logic
Back to the app - The #PrivacyPolicy of the #CowinApp is https://ndhm.gov.in/health_management_policy - Why is Privacy policy of Vaccination app linked to national digital health missions' health data management policy ?
RT @logic
Govt to generate unique health IDs for people giving Aadhaar for vaccination
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/80205336.cms
RT @logic
https://web.archive.org/web/20210117080551/https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1686350 - Note the word - permission / not consent. Lets get back to this in a bit
RT @logic
The #CowinApp is at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cowinapp.app and #Maharashtra has already delayed vaccination by 2 days because of 'technical glitches' with the app https://theprint.in/india/governance/maharashtra-govt-suspends-covid-vaccination-drive-till-monday-citing-issues-in-co-win-app/586933/
RT @logic
https://www.cowin.gov.in/home - is the website and https://app.cowin.gov.in/home is the app backend for CoWIN beneficiary registration and AEFI management https://twitter.com/logic/status/1350694241886879744
RT @logic
So #COVID19Vaccination has its own app - tech infra management - #CoWIN.#Thread to keep a watch on this. It is *as* important or even more important than @SetuAarogya app Page 45 of https://web.archive.org/web/20210109215951/https://www.mohfw.gov.in/pdf/COVID19VaccineOG111Chapter16.pdf CoVID-19 Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN): The Digital Platform
After a decade of fights around complex scripts and slow correction process now @unicode has a new problem.
Emoji's and their cultural appropriation for fanatic interests is the new ground. both Unicode and platforms need a rigorous check on Implementations. Thanks @neintara.
---
RT @neintara
In this feature for @logic_magazine I write about the cultural significance of the new temple emoji, how its form fits within revisionist methods …
https://twitter.com/neintara/status/1349461878171459589
Public interest technologist. Rants on technopolitricks. Building TechCollectives, sometimes products.