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A census of the North-East community in Delhi by the police seeks personal details in the name of security, sparking profiling and privacy concerns.
Delhi’s 200,000-strong population from the North-East is no stranger to harassment and discrimination. In such situations, it can and does turn to the Delhi Police Special Unit for North-Eastern Region, or SPUNER, set up in 2014. Within the community, it is seen as a fairly reliable force. But that reputation may have taken a hit in the last couple of weeks.
The reason being a survey launched by SPUNER last month. On 28 July, the unit circulated a Google form among the city’s residents from the North-East. While filling it was voluntary, it required sharing a number of personal …
Millions of enumerators working for the country’s first-ever fully digital census are relying on an app so choppy that many have to go back to pen and paper.
The Department of Telecommunications’ directive that every smartphone come pre-installed with the app follows a familiar pattern of ‘optional’ tools that turn mandatory in practice.
The Biren Singh government has abysmally failed; that it remains in power, but without authority over the state, is unjustifiable in any functioning democracy.
