Prime Minister Narendra Modi will this week visit Silicon Valley to promote his “Digital India” campaign. But privacy advocates are speaking up ahead of Modi’s arrival, The Economic Times reports. Approximately 137 academics, the majority being of Indian-origin, signed a statement saying Digital India seems to ignore how data is treated and how it might fuel repressive surveillance programs. “We are concerned that the project’s potential for increased transparency in bureaucratic dealings with people is threatened by its lack of safeguards about privacy information, and thus its potential for abuse,” the statement reads.
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