Something is seriously wrong with Indian Govt...! Indian Defence Review According to the Unique ID Authority of India website (UIDAI is the creator of India’s grandiose national information infrastructure “Aadhaar”), several U.S firms have been awarded contracts to provide goods and services to implement the Aadhaar project. For example, Ernst & Young was contracted for setting up UIDAI’s Central ID Data Repository (CIDR), and L-1 Identity Solutions Inc., a U.S-based intelligence and surveillance corporation, for technical support and biometric capture devices. Also, Accenture Services Pvt Ltd which works with U.S Homeland Security, was contracted for implementation of biometric solution. Thus, U.S firms with known links to U.S intelligence are in a position where they can directly or indirectly, by contract or clandestinely, access India’s national database owned and operated by UIDAI. Surely this was known to data system designers in UIDAI and to India’s intelligence organizations. Also surely known is the fact that U.S legislation makes it mandatory for U.S firms to provide to the U.S administration on demand, any or all data or information that they may acquire in the course of their operations. Thus, the fact that the Indian intelligence community was strangely silent on the UIDAI contracts, leads an impartial observer to view this as another sign of India’s subservience to U.S diktat, not necessarily unconnected with corruption at some individual level. Whatever the reason for this, there can be no excuse for compromising India’s data security. India also imports electronic hardware from China (e.g. data routers, which handle data within networks), Japan and South Korea, which is used in government departments. There is little if any systemic method by which these hardware devices with embedded software can be checked for their ability to access the data which they are only meant to handle.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 06:42:53 +0000
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