Nikhil Menon on Planning Democracy
Ideas of India
Is There a Freedom of Information and Data Gathering?
Rajagopalun: Even in the 1970s you can see how a state that turns malevolent can use data for nefarious purposes right so in some ways there's no way to protect data if that is the only data you rely on from the depredations of the state. He says pluralizing data sources might be a good thing where you don't have freedom of press nor do you have alternate data sources or data sets. Rajgopalun: As a citizenry we need to be vigilant and also with our political choices in terms of asking especially with things like Adhar.
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