There has been growing concern among Indians on leaking of their private and sensitive data on to internet. Especially after Aadhaar has been made mandatory for several schemes, government programs, opening bank accounts and several KYC forms now all your data has been “normalized” and “relational” joins have been formed with all your data. If someone can get hold of your Aadhaar number, they can easily get lot of sensitive data about you. But unfortunately, AP government is “officially” putting all your Aadhaar data on public domains in the name of rea-time governance. An IIT Alumni did extensive research on AP government’s data leaks and his reporting of this revelations shocked everyone. Some of the data leaks by AP government are as below:

• · The AP government published details of 2 crore residents Aadhaar, bank account numbers, phone numbers as MS Access databases online
• · Andhra Pradesh leaked Aadhaar of every school student, their claim is to stop school dropouts. This data is shared with Microsoft which boosts itself for building an AI (Artificial Intelligence)
• · Andhra Pradesh carried out a huge Aadhaar based survey and geotagged every resident and the family details by doing ekYC. All of this data was published. You can micro analysis voters in Andhra Pradesh, just using family details, house location, voter lists, living conditions
• · AP NREGA website published details of another 1,12,99,803 residents Aadhaar numbers and bank account details. This NREGA Aadhaar data leaked again from a different portal. Turns out everyone has everyone’s data at multiple databases.
• · Andhra Pradesh built a search portal to search anyone’s information using Aadhaar. This portal was again publicly accessible to anyone. That search portal which everyone says doesn’t exists are all over the place.
• · Andhra Pradesh also published every pregnant women’s Aadhaar details along with her caste details, medical profile and expected date of delivery. AP Govt tracks medicines purchased inside government hospitals and generic pharmacies with the phone number of the buyer. They track more information than just your Aadhaar data.
• · Every resident’s property tax, water bills, advertisement tax details along with Aadhaar numbers, mobile number, GPS lat, long, who lives there and electoral ward you belong to. All of this data is stored with a NGO started by @NandanNilekani They knew the data was leaky in 2015
• · Govt officials of Andhra Pradesh were so great, they leaked their own colleagues Aadhaar data and salary structures.
• · Even swachh bharat portals were leaking this digital shit Aadhaar
• · Andhra Pradesh published details of GPS location, Caste, Religion, Occupation, Bank Account details along with Aadhaar numbers of 50 lakhs people who build new houses
• · Andhra Pradesh has made Aadhaar mandatory for everything and they claim they need all of this data for real-time governance. Surveillance has a new name – real-time governance.
• · All these leaks and many more because of Chandra Babu’s dream portal CM Dashboard https://core.ap.gov.in/CMDashBoard/Index.aspx
• · Andhra Pradesh wants to link all of this data using Aadhaar to build 360 profiles of every citizen. They call it People Hub, part of their real-time surveillance Operating System called E-Pragati
• · Andhra Pradesh publishes Aadhaar everywhere from electricity bills to even in auto-rickshaws.
• · Andhra Pradesh is true digital nightmare, all thanks to Aadhaar.

It seems our governments don’t realize the consequences of putting such sensitive data online. In fact, India as country still don’t realize how fundamental is the right of privacy of it’s citizen’s data .