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Is there any financial incentive to secure an Indian citizen's data ? In fact, there's more financial incentive to make things leaky, less work needs to be don
by reallymental 6y ago
Is there any financial incentive to secure an Indian citizen's data ?
In fact, there's more financial incentive to make things leaky, less work needs to be done to peek into your neighbors yard, and the vast (vast, vast) majority of the people cannot give a damn about this.
Frankly, I'm surprised they replied with an acknowledgement and tried to fix some vulns.
Expect no more changes.
- deadalus 6y agoIndian Government Sold Driver Licence Data to 87 Private Companies for Rs 65 Crore - https://www.news18.com/news/auto/government-sold-drivers-licence-data-to-87-private-companies-for-rs-65-crore-nitin-gadkari-2227607.html https://www.news18.com/news/auto/government-sold-drivers-lic...
- juancb 6y agoWhat does RS 65 Croer mean?
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- Clewza313 6y agoCrore = 10 million, so 650 million rupees, or around $9M USD.
- chrismorgan 6y agoRs means rupees, specifically Indian rupees in this case, which has the symbol ₹ and code INR. (Other countries have rupees as well, but that symbol is specifically for Indian rupees.) One crore is 10 million in the Indian numbering system, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore.
- kuschku 6y agoCrore is equivalent to 10e6. In this case, that would evaluate to 650'000'000 INR.
- chrismorgan 6y ago> 10e6 Under scientific notation, you should strongly prefer to write 1e7. 10e6 is just begging for people to interpret it as 10⁶ rather than 10×10⁶ (10⁷).
- kuschku 6y agoBut that's the definition, and every calculator's "engineering" mode shows it exactly like that, too. And usually you learn in middle school how to interpret that. Here’s a photo with the calculator I used in middle school, showing exactly the specified number: https://i.k8r.eu/qOUpgg.png https://i.k8r.eu/qOUpgg.png
- chrismorgan 6y agoCurious. I don’t have a traditional calculator to hand, but tools like Rust, Python and Wolfram|Alpha are all turning 10e50 into 1e51. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#Normalized_notation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#Normalized... agrees with my memory that in normalised form the coefficient should be at least one and less than ten.
- whatshisface 6y agoMeE isn't M^E, it's defined as M * 10^E.
- chrismorgan 6y agoAnd that’s what I was talking about from the start—10e6 is 10×10⁶, which is in normalised form 1×10⁷ or 1e7.
- perryizgr8 6y agohttps://perryizgr8.github.io/crores-to-millions/ https://perryizgr8.github.io/crores-to-millions/ Tool I wrote to convert between Indian and American numbers. 65 crore = 650 million
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- OmegaPG 6y agoThe data is already publicly available via government sites and app store. By making the data public through 3rd parties, government just made it easy for public to access it.
- _trampeltier 6y agoCalofornia does it sell for 50Mio USD and Florida for 77Mio USD. I guess just everybody sell everything today. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a32035408/dmv-selling-driver-data/ https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a32035408/dmv-selling-...