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India's Election Commission, a constitutional body responsible for conducting free and fair elections in the country, has finally heard the concerns of the citi
by shireeshj 13y ago
India's Election Commission, a constitutional body responsible for conducting free and fair elections in the country, has finally heard the concerns of the citizens and has called off its plans to use google to help voters locate polling stations. In the guise of providing this as a social service, Google was trying to get the demographic data of the entire population of India directly from the government. What was that again? "Dont be evil"? yeh! right.
- shireeshj 13y agoHere is a link to the news paper article announcing this http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/ec-aborts-tie-up-with-google-over-security-concerns/articleshow/28596375.cms http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation...
- awk23 13y agoThe EC said Google had proposed to provide electoral look up services for citizens to help in Commission's efforts for better electoral information services. What's wrong with that? Are you affiliated with any of the local companies lobbying to get that contract instead?
- shireeshj 13y agoUse google to find that... :) Why isn't google proposing something like this to US government? Their election system sucks - remember how George Bush got his second term?
- awk23 13y agoThey do actually: https://developers.google.com/gec/ https://developers.google.com/gec/ Isn't that open data anyway?