Will Data Science Encroach On Our Privacy?
These days our country in particular and the world in general are facing a huge unknown demon in terms of the issue of breach of privacy. While Snowden from the fame of Wikileaks had already released the confidential documents of the kind of secret surveillance, which the powerful countries had in place to keep a tab on developing centres of powers, in particular India. What is more baffling that maybe the capitalist brigade of our own country also has the potential to compromise our data, if they ever fall prey to the advent of various dangerous viruses like Petya or Wannacry. With the newest run in of the Government of India with the Supreme Court regarding whether linking of our Unique Identity Cards or Aadhar Cards with our phone number, has prompted the running of a lot of questions in the minds of the general public. This is worrisome mainly because of the recent reports of data base hacking of prominent telecommunication network companies like Jio and Airtel. These databases ...