{"id":51532,"date":"2019-08-23T17:43:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T12:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=51532"},"modified":"2019-08-23T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T12:13:09","slug":"answered-linking-aadhaar-to-social-media-is-an-infringement-on-privacy-of-individual-and-can-be-damaging-to-democracy-comment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-linking-aadhaar-to-social-media-is-an-infringement-on-privacy-of-individual-and-can-be-damaging-to-democracy-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] \u201cLinking Aadhaar to social media is an infringement on privacy of individual and can be damaging to democracy.\u201d Comment."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction.<\/strong> Contextual Introduction.
Body. <\/strong>
Conclusion. <\/strong>Way forward. <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors such as individuals or organizations. The massive influx of personal information that has become available online has put user privacy at risk. Ideas like Linking Aadhar to social media is not only dangerous but also carry high risk to individual privacy but also a threat to democracy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benefits of linking social\nmedia to Aadhar:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. The linking of social media profiles of the\nusers with the Aadhaar is needed to check fake news, defamatory articles,\npornographic materials, anti-national and terror contents in the online media. E.g\nonline game Blue Whale had terrorised parents and claimed several young lives\nin India. Thus linking would help in keeping eye on such threats.<\/li>
  2. It will help in preventing the act of terrorism in\nour country by creating a wider security network and internet providing much\nmore effective security measure.<\/li>
  3. It will help government to trace the origin of\nsuch online content. This will help in acting at the root of the issue.<\/li>
  4. It will help in identification of racially or\nreligiously motivated criminals and act against them before harm is caused to\nothers.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    A threat to\nprivacy and democracy:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Infringement of Privacy:<\/strong> The privacy of\nusers\u2019 data is at stake. Aadhar contains vital information like age, sex, date\nof birth, address of the individual. Linking Aadhar to social media would\nexpose this data to cyber criminals. Linking Aadhar and stalking peoples\u2019 is a\ndirect impingement of right to privacy under article 21.<\/li>
    2. Threat to democracy: <\/strong>Democracies are\nestablished with the purpose of protecting the rights of their citizens. Linking\nAadhar to social media is a threat to democracy in a way that it can be used to\ninfluence elections and voting behaviour of individuals through surveillance.\nThis is a serious threat to people\u2019s power and freedom.<\/li>
    3. Risk to financial security: <\/strong>Aadhar is\nlinked to banks, various social schemes etc. Linking it to social media will\nexpose users data and possibly all the transaction information. Hacker can\neasily exploit how the money deposits, and may cause a financial fraud risking\nfinancial security of individual and of our nation. Hackers may use Aadhar info\nlinked to social media accounts to steal money.<\/li>
    4. Dark activities:<\/strong> The possibility that the\nlinking Aadhar will nurture illicit activities and markets like drug selling,\nweapons etc through darknet by using stolen ids, Aadhar information from social\nmedia accounts. It also increase risk for being used in various terrorist\nactivities across the border.<\/li>
    5. Threat to transparency: <\/strong>The government\u2019s\nsurveillance may not be always about increasing security. It can be used in the\nto avoid transparency, leading to the loss of basic human rights. Decisions\nabout surveillance are taken by the executive branch (including the review\nprocess), with no parliamentary or judicial supervision.<\/li>
    6. Threat to social security:<\/strong> Social media websites\nkeep track of all interactions used on their sites and save them. These\ncompanies like Facebook are found to be involved in cyberstalking, location\ndisclosure, social profiling, 3rd party personal information disclosure, and\nwithout the safeguard of a search warrant. Linking Aadhar would expose\nsensitive info to be out in the market which could be used for blackmailing, targeted\nadvertisements etc. infringing social security.<\/li>
    7. Propagandas: <\/strong>Such exposure of identities\nare threat to social peace and stability by using propagandas, false news and false\nideologies used by various anti-social actors targeting specific community and\npeople. Although government would keep eye on such agendas, it is difficult to\nprevent all of such actors. Further it is very difficult to define what is fake\nand what is propaganda.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      The Supreme Court stressed the need to find a balance between the right to online privacy and the right of the State to detect people who use the web to spread panic and commit crimes. But finding such a balance is not only difficult but almost impossible. Such an would act expose all society to threat of loss of privacy and harassment of individual with less control of government on such risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Demand of the question Introduction. Contextual Introduction. Body. Conclusion. Way forward. A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors such as individuals or organizations. The massive influx of personal information that has become available online has put user privacy at risk. Ideas like Linking Aadhar to social media… Continue reading [Answered] \u201cLinking Aadhaar to social media is an infringement on privacy of individual and can be damaging to democracy.\u201d Comment.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":49132,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51532","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}