Mar 27, 2020
The past experience of when the government uses data and hi-tech tools to target the right beneficiaries has not been good or efficient. The power structures provide wrong or fake information to ensure their own inclusion, at the cost of the poor and marginalised. What the government has done with the tools like Aadhaar is that they have excessively collected information and have then used privacy as an excuse to keep it away from the community. The potential of misuse of techno-managerial tools is huge.
Nikhil Dey, of the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, an organisation that campaigns for transparency in implementation of welfare schemes