Making strides in Indian language computing and digital rights, Anivar Aravind has worked to ensure that systems and policies put people above software
Twitter user Anivar Aravind noted that Aadhaar numbers offer key opportunity to gangs to take over your identity through a phone number change, pointing to rackets that have spread to 16 states.
Anivar Aravind, a public interest technologist, explains why you should be worried about the CoWIN data leak and why the government should take responsibility.
The bot was a plain search facility on a database and multiple records were fetched against one thing. For instance, if you search with a person's name or their Aadhaar number, it gives out details of six people vaccinated against it. Now they have just cut this access, but data is still out there," said Anivar Aravind, executive director of the civic-tech non-profit initiative Indic Project.
It is a mistake on the bank's part to freeze accounts based on small transactions. Banks and National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) must come up with a customer-friendly system while handling United Payment Interface's (UPI) disputed transactions.