Monday, March 6, 2017

Indian ministers and CEOs flock to the US to report to the digital colonizers

Click here to access article by Norbert Häring from his website (Germany).
On April 9, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT will devote its 207 [2017] MIT India Conference to the topic of “Digital India”. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Information Technology and Law and Justice, will be one of the prominent speakers from India. He should be able to report to the “future world leaders”, how you can push ahead with a huge databank of biometric information named Aadhaar, which is being used as the cornerstone for digital payments and made mandatory for government payments and services  – even if data security and privacy are a disaster, even if the necessary infrastructure is absent in large parts of the country and even if a constitutional court deems it illegal.