Published inHasgeekHow do we build India’s National Open Digital Ecosystem?The Ministry of Electronics of Information Technology (MeITY) has released a consultation paper on Strategy for National Open Digital…Mar 19, 2020Mar 19, 2020
Published inThe Fifth Elephant BlogThe Technology ApocalypseThe seventh edition of The Fifth Elephant — which concluded last week — featured a talk on poor quality of data collected by the Aadhar…Aug 1, 2018Aug 1, 2018
Published inKaaranaA billion users, but no bug reporting policyEven after 210 websites were found publishing Aadhaar numbers and bank account details, UIDAI has not done enough to engage with security…Dec 5, 2017Dec 5, 2017
Published inKaaranaAadhaar numbers being stored by others apart from UIDAI are not secureOn February 17 being informed about a website publishing various details of potentially 5–6 lakhs children including their Aadhaar numbers…Feb 22, 2017Feb 22, 2017
Indian Railways Information and Data SecurityI have been documenting about Indian Railways and its IT systems over the past two years. In a previous post I criticized the railways…Dec 3, 2016Dec 3, 2016
BEST to partner with Zophop for real-time updatesThis post first appeared on BESTpediaOct 20, 2016Oct 20, 2016
Comments on National Data Sharing Policy and Open Data LicenseThese were my comments on the implementation of the policy and the new draft Government Open Data License. I couldn’t submit this on time…Jul 25, 2016Jul 25, 2016
Indian Railways Should Secure Data Before Monetising ItIRCTC may or may not have been hacked; the railways doesn’t need to tell you about it because there are no mandatory disclosure laws in…Jun 3, 2016Jun 3, 2016
Call Data Records of Bangalore Police InvestigationsBangalore Police released 13,000 call data records (CDR) of potential on-going investigations during a hackathon with focus on solving…Feb 29, 2016Feb 29, 2016
Historic Maps of India at Library of CongressI was in Washington D.C for Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in January. I spent significant amount of my brief stay in the…Feb 28, 2016Feb 28, 2016