{"id":52235,"date":"2019-09-17T10:57:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T05:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?page_id=52235"},"modified":"2019-09-17T10:57:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T05:27:36","slug":"answered-aadhaar-linkage-to-social-media-is-a-double-edged-sword-discuss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-aadhaar-linkage-to-social-media-is-a-double-edged-sword-discuss\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] \u201cAadhaar linkage to social media is a double edged sword.\u201d Discuss."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Demand of the question<\/strong>
Introduction. <\/strong>Contextual Introduction.
Body. <\/strong>Positive and negative aspects of linking social media to Aadhar.
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 and a threat to democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Positive\naspects of linking social media 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.\nE.g online game Blue Whale had terrorised parents and claimed several young\nlives in India. Thus linking would help in keeping eye on such threats.<\/li>
  2. It will help in preventing the act of terrorism\nin our 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

    Negative\naspects of linking social media to Aadhar:<\/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.\nLinking Aadhar to social media is a threat to democracy in a way that it can be\nused to influence elections and voting behaviour of individuals through\nsurveillance. This 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\nwebsites keep track of all interactions used on their sites and save them.\nThese companies like Facebook are found to be involved in cyberstalking,\nlocation disclosure, social profiling, 3rd party personal information\ndisclosure, and without the safeguard of a search warrant. Linking Aadhar would\nexpose sensitive info to be out in the market which could be used for blackmailing,\ntargeted advertisements 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\nfalse ideologies used by various anti-social actors targeting specific\ncommunity and people. Although government would keep eye on such agendas, it is\ndifficult to prevent all of such actors. Further it is very difficult to define\nwhat is fake and 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. Positive and negative aspects of linking social media to Aadhar. 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… Continue reading [Answered] \u201cAadhaar linkage to social media is a double edged sword.\u201d Discuss.<\/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-52235","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\/52235","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=52235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52235\/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=52235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}