In a meeting she revealed how she had divided villages into categories like A, B, C and D. A = she got 80 percent votes, D = where she got less than 50 percent votes. This points to the underpinnings of having access to Form-20. Now add a mobile number to this, and imagine the possibilities it holds. So this data could be mined and analysed in various ways and every voter could be carefully profiled and targeted.
To identify the beneficiaries of the COVID vaccine, the Home Ministry asked for this data from the Election Commission. And the Commission has provided this data with this precondition that every step would be taken to protect this data, and once used, it should be deleted. If the Commission did not know about its potential for misuse, it would not have put forth this advice.
Will EC Be Able To Protect E-Voter ID Data?
The consequences of this scheme will be mammoth and beyond imagination. Considering the minimal understanding of tech that many of our politicians and leaders…