On 11/29/2011 11:28 AM, jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Monday 28 November 2011 22:13:06 Rony wrote:
By the way, how many nay sayers of UID on this list have actually met NN of Infosys and held long discussions on this UID matter? Has he responded negatively?
HE has NEVER EVER met one single person who was opposed to his pet gratification. He (and other UIDAI officials) have been invited innumerable number of times. Even in their own press cons, they keep mouthing the same old lies which have been proved false. I had demoed that spoof and made a presentation of the lie that is biometrics to the IAS official incharge of the UID in K'tka. He almost immediately became defensive and refused to believe that he UID scanners were "cheap". The chai - a very well known and respected name - had to put him in his place. I had asked for a meeting with UiDAI officials and UIDAI scanners to demo the shortcomings and vulnerabilities. The official promised one shortly. 1 year later not only has no such meeting happened, UIDAI officials have never attended another public meet organised by opposers. Indeed the UIDAI thinks all those research papers and opposition views are extreme and we should roll over and believe in he UIDAI "cause".
No research supporting their claims, no research refuting our presented data, just rollover and bootlick. Replies to RTI actually prove that deduplication is a total farce and there is no way of verifying a false accept or a false reject. Other RTIs reveal a total lack of the most cursory due diligence in innumerable matters.
The rate of deduplication and issue has to be 1 UIN per .385 secs for a population of 1.2^9. This rate will continue to climb. The UIDAI was several orders of magnitude below this rate requirement. So they find shortcuts. They start to use demographic data alongwith biometrics. Now this whole exercise rest on the use of biometrics to remove ambiguities in demographic data. Instead they rip up their own underlying principle. The answer to your "stuck with false identity" mail, apart from my tech explanation, can be refuted more simply by this new shortcut.
I doubt if anyone of them will accept any invitations to opposing views. How have the media persons reacted to this? They could raise important questions in the papers, TV channels and compel NN and Co. to offer explanations. Whether we agree to this UID idea or not, I believe that the process to implement this should be democratic and not hushed. Otherwise it will become another Commonwealth Games fiasco.