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Public interest technologist Anivar Aravind sees this as a continuation of earlier workarounds. While the Supreme Court allowed Aadhaar use by the state for specific purposes, it clearly barred private use, he said.

സഞ്ചാര്‍ സാഥി നിര്‍ബന്ധിത പ്രീ ഇന്‍സ്റ്റാള്‍ പിന്‍വലിച്ചു; പക്ഷെ 'സിം ബൈന്‍ഡിങ്' വഴി ഏത് മെസഞ്ചറിനും പൂട്ടു വീഴാം

The key change since 2021 is that the Centre's Public Financial Management System (PFMS) has evolved from a simple accounting and reporting tool into a powerful expenditure control platform.

To understand the implications of this shift, Decode spoke with Anivar Aravind, a public interest technologist who has been a prominent voice on the policy and technical risks of large, single-vendor government adoptions.

വിജയം നിര്‍ണയിക്കുന്നത് ഏറ്റവും മികച്ച സാങ്കേതികവിദ്യയല്ല, മറിച്ച് ആര്‍ക്കാണ് കൂടുതല്‍ ഡെവലപ്പര്‍മാരുടെ സ്വീകാര്യത (ഡെവലപ്പര്‍ അഡോപ്ഷന്‍) നേടാന്‍ കഴിയുന്നത് എന്നതാണ്.

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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.

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The verdicts on search and seizure are very less and they are not properly defined, and still evolving on the basis of new cases.

The case was filed by public-interest technologist Anivar Aravind. He told 101Reporters over the phone that the MEA is clearly violating the HC's order by imposing the app on passport seekers.

തെരഞ്ഞെടുപ്പ് വാഗ്വാദങ്ങള്‍ക്കപ്പറും സാങ്കേതിക രാഷ്ട്രീയ വസ്തുതകള്‍ കേള്‍ക്കാന്‍ താല്‍പര്യമുള്ളവര്‍ക്കായി വിശദമായ വീഡിയോയുമായി രംഗത്തു വന്നിരിക്കയാണ് പല വിഷയങ്ങളിലും ബോധവല്‍ക്കരണം നടത്തിയ ബംഗളൂരു ആസ്ഥാനമായി പ്രവര്‍ത്തിക്കുന്ന സോഫ്റ്റ് വെയര്‍ എഞ്ചിനീയര്‍ അനിവര്‍ അരവിന്ദ്.

Recently, the Karnataka High Court passed an interim order on 27th January 2021, by which it prohibited the Government of India and National Informatics Centre (NIC) from sharing the health data of citizens without their informed consent.

In the case Anivar A Aravind vs. Ministry of Home Affairs and others, the Karnataka high court held that information privacy is a facet of the right to privacy.

ബംഗ്ലൂരിൽ താമസിക്കുന്ന ഐ.ടി വിദഗ്ധനും മലയാളിയുമായ അനിവർ അരവിന്ദ് നടത്തിയ നിയമപോരാട്ടമാണ് ഈ കോടതിവിധിയ്ക്കു വഴിവെച്ചത്

The interim order was passed in a writ petition filed by Anivar Aravind, seeking directions to the authorities to refrain from denying services to citizens for not installing the 'Aarogya Setu' application.

This is an important order ensuring user rights and consent as baseline for what one should run on their personal computing devices

The Karnataka High Court on Thursday reserved its order in the petition filed by Anivar Aravind who has sought directions to the authorities not to deny any service to citizens for not installing the 'Aarogya Setu' application.

A division bench headed by Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka passed this order on the PIL by Anivar A Aravind, who described himself as a digital rights activist, challenging various protocols that mandate downloading of Aarogya Setu application.

The division bench, comprising of Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Ashok S. Kinagi, was hearing Anivar A. Aravind’s petition seeking a permanent order against the use of the contact tracing application.

A division bench of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Ashok S Kinagi issued the clarification while hearing a petition filed by Anivar A Aravind who has challenged the mandatory use of Aarogya Setu application for accessing public services.

The division bench, comprising of Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Ashok Kinagi, was hearing Anivar A. Aravind’s petition which is seeking a permanent order against the use of the contact tracing app.

The clarification is sought while hearing a petition filed by Anivar A Aravind who has challenged the mandatory use of Aarogya Setu application for accessing public services.

Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court Abhay Oka observed while hearing Anivar A. Aravind's petition seeking permanent injunction against the use of the contact tracing app.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice Ashok S Kinagi passed the order while hearing a PIL filed by Anivar A Aravind, challenging the compulsory use of the App in many services.

Senior advocate Colin Gonsalves appearing for the petitioner Anivar A Aravind informed the court about guidelines issued by the Airports Authority of India, on July 30.

Anivar Aravind, a Bengaluru-based software engineer who runs a non-profit initiative that deals with people's rights and software freedom using technology, policy and law, concurs.

The Court is hearing the petition filed by Anivar Aravind, cyber security activist, raising privacy concerns about the app.

While it may no longer be mandatory to use Aarogya Setu for rail and air travel, Anivar Aravind’s battle in Karnataka High Court is not yet over.

Anivar Aravind, Executive Director, Indic Project

The division bench, constituting Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice E.S. Indiresh, was hearing a PIL filed by Anivar Aravind, a public interest technologist and part of SFLC.in’s advisory board, that argued against mandating Aarogya Setu for rail and air travel.

The statement was made during the hearing of a petition filed by cyber activist Anivar Aravind, who contended that the Aarogya Setu protocol violates a citizen’s right to privacy.

The petition filed by Anivar Aravind, a board member of the Software Freedom Law Centre (SFLC), was heard by Chief Justice Abhay Oka and Justice S Vishwajith Shetty.

The statement was made during the hearing of a petition filed by cyber security activist, Anivar A Aravind.

The petition filed by cybersecurity activist Anivar Arvind states that by an order dated May 1, the Centre had made the use of the app compulsory for all employees in both the private and public sector.

the petition was filed by one Anivar A Aravind who is a software engineer based in Bengaluru and also works for a city-based non-profit focused on democratising technology

Aarogya Setu is nothing but a surveillance app. In the name of contact tracing, Aarogya Setu collects registration details, GPS locations, nearby device data and this can be used to identify your social graph.

In India, often, the practise is to accept the government's version of technical reasoning when it comes to PILs. However, Aadhaar was one of the rare occasions in the country when it was proved that the government's technical reasoning can also be challenged and questioned, and recognised by the minority judgment.

This order is primarily against the state manifesto which was against Aadhaar linking. Here the government is forcing the linkage of Aadhaar with distribution of the salary.

The majority judgement shows judges need to understand technology better

Anivar Aravind and a few others sent Re 1 to his Bank of India account via AEPS.

Designing Aadhaar without limiting its purpose is the real problem here

Anivar Aravind, a panelist, called it "defected by design" and "bound to fail" because not only is the technology completely untested but there are very obvious leaks that are taking place.

Anivar Aravind organisiert in Indien Widerstand gegen Facebooks neokolonial beschränktes „Umsonst-Internet“ – mit Erfolg.

IBus-Sharada-Braille changes that.