Voter Data Exploitation in Andhra Pradesh. Should You Be Worried?
Hyderabad-based IT Grids (India) Pvt Ltd, which provides information technology (IT) services to Andhra Pradesh's ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP), is facing allegations of having stolen data of 37 million voters from the state government database through an app. According to a complaint filed in this case, the data was being misused for voter profiling and deleting names of non-TDP voters to further the prospects of the Party in the Assembly and the Lok Sabha elections. This not only is a serious matter but also raises questions on impending dangers of allowing profiling of citizens through demographic data obtained from Aadhaar.