Tagged: Privacy

Uma and Appa having a discussion. 0

Weekly Notes 10/2025

Appa was down with a fever and an upset stomach for a couple of days. He recovered pretty fast. Now that Uma can make sentences of two or three words from different languages, their conversation is fun to hear. She probably has a combined vocabulary of 100 words in Malayalam, Kannada, and English....

Public CCTV Camera at Cubbon Park, By Yashodhara Udupa 0

Surveillance in Bengaluru – Updates

I have been mapping Surveillance in Bengaluru for couple of months now. We have made some good progress. I thought it’s good time to share those updates and ask for help. Mapping We have mapped 340 Public and Outdoors CCTV cameras. I think we have made good progress. But to cover the entire...

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Personal Liberty is Dead

I was sick today but the taxman won’t care about that. He doesn’t even care that I have been paying tax from the day I took my first job, very honestly 1. This taxman wants to know its me who is paying tax. I still don’t know who he thought was paying the...

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Mapping Surveillance in Bangalore using OpenStreetMap

Table of Contents1 How to add1.1 Using OSMAnd1.2 Using Every Door2 How to get this data3 Surveillance under Surveillance4 What next? For last couple of months I have been driving quite a bit inside the city1. The biggest thing I noticed was the amount of public CCTV cameras across the city. I find...

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ಖಾಸಗಿತನ ಮೂಲಭೂತ ಹಕ್ಕು

ನೆನ್ನೆ ಮಾನ್ಯ ಸುಪ್ರೀಂ ಕೋರ್ಟ್‌ನ ಒಂಬತ್ತು ನ್ಯಾಯಮೂರ್ತಿಗಳ ಸಂವಿಧಾನ ಪೀಠವು ಖಾಸಗಿತನ ಮೂಲಭೂತ ಹಕ್ಕು ಎಂದು ಸರ್ವಾನುಮತದಿಂದ ತೀರ್ಮಾನಿಸಿತು. ಸರಳವಾಗಿ ಹೇಳಬೇಕೆಂದರೆ ಖಾಸಗಿತನ ತನ್ನ ಪಾಡಿಗೆ ತಾನು ಬದುಕುವ ಹಕ್ಕು. ಇದನ್ನು ಎತ್ತಿಡಿಯುವುದರ ಮೂಲಕ ಪ್ರತಿ ಭಾರತೀಯನ ಮೇಲೆ ಪರಿಣಾಮ ಬೀರುವಂತಹ ಚಾರಿತ್ರಿಕ ತೀರ್ಪುನ್ನು ಪೀಠವು ನೀಡಿದೆ. ನೆನಪಿನಲ್ಲಿಡಬೇಕಾದ ಅಂಶವೆಂದರೆ ಖಾಸಗಿತನವು ಮೂಲಭೂತ ಹಕ್ಕು ಅಲ್ಲ ಎಂದು ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಪ್ರತಿಪಾದಿಸಿತ್ತು. ಇವೆಲ್ಲದರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ನನ್ನೆರಡು ಮಾತುಗಳು. ಓದಲಿಕ್ಕೆ: ಸುಪ್ರೀಂ ಕೋರ್ಟ್‌ನ ತೀರ್ಪಿನ ಪ್ರತಿ...

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Dear Mr R S Sharma: Aadhaar Number has no place on the Open Web

The Center for Internet and Society recently published a report called Information Security Practices of Aadhaar (or lack thereof): A documentation of public availability of Aadhaar numbers with sensitive personal financial information. After it was published it got wide media coverage. R S Sharma, currently chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India,...