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Scroll around among the MANY leaks and you'll stumble across this one: Public searchable db of pregnant women with addresses, due date and CASTE! In a society
by boxed 5y ago
Scroll around among the MANY leaks and you'll stumble across this one:
Public searchable db of pregnant women with addresses, due date and CASTE!
In a society where people are targeted and killed for their caste this is terrifying.
- ssivark 5y agoExposing this data publicly may be a huge problem (I don't know enough about the leaks), but in a society where people want the government to offer welfare benefits based on caste (to address historical inequities), the government necessarily needs to track this data to prevent fraud when doling out welfare (eg. to issue the relevant certificates on birth, which can then be used in various benefit schemes analogous to affirmative action). One can't have it both ways!
- boxed 5y agoOne can absolutely have is "both ways" if both is: private data and govt knows your caste. It's the public data that is the problem.