HYDERABAD: An enormous probe has been launched by way of a couple of agencies reminiscent of Unique Identification Authority of India, Election Commission of India and Cyberabad police into a grievance filed relating to alleged privateness breach and misuse of information of 3.7 crore voters in Andhra Pradesh.
The grievance was once filed by way of YSR Congress MP V Vijaysai Reddy towards Hyderabad-based IT Grids (India) Pvt Ltd’s ‘Sevamitra’ app promoting the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Vijaysai alleged that govt knowledge from the Smart Pulse Survey which was once linked to State Resident Data Hub (SRDH) containing demographic knowledge of Aadhaar and electoral rolls ready by way of the ECI have been misused.
IT Grids India Pvt Limited, based in Madhapur, has carried out several packages and different IT answers for various AP govt departments and may be the developer of the ruling TDP ‘Sevamitra’ app.
The app has voter ID numbers, names, colour pictures, booth-level data, family main points, caste data and govt schemes and amounts a voter will get as beneficiary. The app comes with all of the data inbuilt and is extensively used by TDP activists.
Investigators are actually that specialize in how the company obtained family main points and beneficiary knowledge. Cyberabad police commissioner V C Sajjanar instructed TOI, “We have received the grievance and are yet to register an FIR. We are learning the contents.”
EC should keep an eye on breach of privateness: Security researcher
An electronic mail and messages sent to the promoter of IT Grid went unanswered. Sources said Ashok Dakavaram instructed police that the knowledge used in the app is collected from open knowledge resources to be had on electoral rolls and the survey performed house-to-house by way of the birthday celebration employees. He denied collecting any data from Aadhaar or SRDH or any govt database.
Security researcher Srinivas Kodali instructed TOI, “Any non-public data of a voter is part of his fundamental proper of privateness. The Election Commission must keep an eye on any breach.” On June 19, 2018, IdealNews revealed a story on the breach of information of 4.5 crore citizens from Smart Pulse Survey after Kodali exposed it.
An Election Commission professional instructed TOI, “The cushy replica of electoral rolls provided to political events is best non-photo electoral roll knowledge. The onerous replica printouts are given in black and white with pictures. We haven’t provided any cushy replica or onerous replica of electoral rolls to any birthday celebration or any corporate.”
Officials of UIDAI are yet to reply on whether or not the pictures and family grouping belongs to their database or SRDH. An professional of UIDAI said, “We have asked the states to destroy SRDH after a Supreme Court judgement. We have been informed that Andhra Pradesh destroyed it a few months ago. But we have to verify whether or not Smart Pulse survey database remains to be having traces and demographic main points collected from SRDH.”
Andhra Pradesh govt created an SRDH in affiliation with UIDAI and the SRDH reflect symbol of the Aadhaar knowledge in terms of AP from the Data Repository of UIDAI in Bengaluru. SRDH accommodates the basic knowledge like a resident’s Aadhaar quantity, identify, date of start or yr of start, gender, address, postal pin code, photograph, biometric knowledge.
In 2016, the AP govt took up Smart Pulse Survey of all families, geared toward capturing socio-economic knowledge immediately in virtual form, with online validations. It is geared toward completing the seeding of Aadhaar with departments’ database, ensuring correctness of information already seeded with Aadhaar, e-string the demographic knowledge in the SRDH.
AP Government data era advisor J Satyanarayana, who may be chairman of UIDAI, instructed TOI, “The Smart Pulse Survey is integration and convergence of the a couple of databases of socioeconomic knowledge of the people with the SRDH database. The objective is for real-time governance and geared toward checking whether or not the welfare schemes are attaining beneficiaries.SRDH as a separate entity has been stopped.”
The grievance was once filed by way of YSR Congress MP V Vijaysai Reddy towards Hyderabad-based IT Grids (India) Pvt Ltd’s ‘Sevamitra’ app promoting the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Vijaysai alleged that govt knowledge from the Smart Pulse Survey which was once linked to State Resident Data Hub (SRDH) containing demographic knowledge of Aadhaar and electoral rolls ready by way of the ECI have been misused.
IT Grids India Pvt Limited, based in Madhapur, has carried out several packages and different IT answers for various AP govt departments and may be the developer of the ruling TDP ‘Sevamitra’ app.
The app has voter ID numbers, names, colour pictures, booth-level data, family main points, caste data and govt schemes and amounts a voter will get as beneficiary. The app comes with all of the data inbuilt and is extensively used by TDP activists.
Investigators are actually that specialize in how the company obtained family main points and beneficiary knowledge. Cyberabad police commissioner V C Sajjanar instructed TOI, “We have received the grievance and are yet to register an FIR. We are learning the contents.”
EC should keep an eye on breach of privateness: Security researcher
An electronic mail and messages sent to the promoter of IT Grid went unanswered. Sources said Ashok Dakavaram instructed police that the knowledge used in the app is collected from open knowledge resources to be had on electoral rolls and the survey performed house-to-house by way of the birthday celebration employees. He denied collecting any data from Aadhaar or SRDH or any govt database.
Security researcher Srinivas Kodali instructed TOI, “Any non-public data of a voter is part of his fundamental proper of privateness. The Election Commission must keep an eye on any breach.” On June 19, 2018, IdealNews revealed a story on the breach of information of 4.5 crore citizens from Smart Pulse Survey after Kodali exposed it.
An Election Commission professional instructed TOI, “The cushy replica of electoral rolls provided to political events is best non-photo electoral roll knowledge. The onerous replica printouts are given in black and white with pictures. We haven’t provided any cushy replica or onerous replica of electoral rolls to any birthday celebration or any corporate.”
Officials of UIDAI are yet to reply on whether or not the pictures and family grouping belongs to their database or SRDH. An professional of UIDAI said, “We have asked the states to destroy SRDH after a Supreme Court judgement. We have been informed that Andhra Pradesh destroyed it a few months ago. But we have to verify whether or not Smart Pulse survey database remains to be having traces and demographic main points collected from SRDH.”
Andhra Pradesh govt created an SRDH in affiliation with UIDAI and the SRDH reflect symbol of the Aadhaar knowledge in terms of AP from the Data Repository of UIDAI in Bengaluru. SRDH accommodates the basic knowledge like a resident’s Aadhaar quantity, identify, date of start or yr of start, gender, address, postal pin code, photograph, biometric knowledge.
In 2016, the AP govt took up Smart Pulse Survey of all families, geared toward capturing socio-economic knowledge immediately in virtual form, with online validations. It is geared toward completing the seeding of Aadhaar with departments’ database, ensuring correctness of information already seeded with Aadhaar, e-string the demographic knowledge in the SRDH.
AP Government data era advisor J Satyanarayana, who may be chairman of UIDAI, instructed TOI, “The Smart Pulse Survey is integration and convergence of the a couple of databases of socioeconomic knowledge of the people with the SRDH database. The objective is for real-time governance and geared toward checking whether or not the welfare schemes are attaining beneficiaries.SRDH as a separate entity has been stopped.”
Data breach by TDP app? UIDAI, EC launch probe
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