Right to privacy - A discussion on the 7th fundamental right.

Hello readers

Hope you all are fine.

People should not be afraid of Government, Government should be afraid of people.

-Alan Moore

Hmmm, it's raining here as I am drafting this blog feels pleasant.

Well, the present government is definitely proactive when compared to the previous one and we all have reason to believe that.

Recently I heard news about the Supreme Court’s decision regarding the right to privacy, I think it was much needed and welcome the move.

Why is our right to privacy important? Let me ask you a simple question do you feel safe if some stranger knows your personal phone number your personal address and your bank account number! Definitely, it is unsafe.

Right to privacy is something which will protect you in many ways, I was reading an article written in the first post by Sri. Rajeev Chandrasekhar on firstpost.com I have listed some takeaways which will help us get some awareness about the right to privacy as a fundamental right.

1.     There are several implications of this judgment but mark my words, the full impact of this will be seen and felt over the coming years as the relationship between citizens and the state, citizens and big corporates gets redefined and recalibrated to realise the vision of being not just the world's largest democracy but also the most advanced democracy

2.     Central to implementing this vision is the idea of a digital India. In an interconnected world where technology governs virtually all aspects of our lives, Thursday's judgment embeds consumer rights within the Constitution. This verdict effectively creates for the first time, obligations and responsibilities for all entities, government or private, that deal with the information of Indian citizens.

3.     This verdict has put to rest the issue of privacy is a fundamental right and it goes way beyond Aadhaar. The main issue was the seven-decade-old culture in our bureaucracy where citizens had no protective rights against the State.

4.     This ruling will deter unethical practices by corporates such as stealing biometric details from Aadhaar card to illegally procure multiple SIM cards or sharing of information without any authorisation. With the intrusion of technology, the telecom companies, e-commerce companies and other private service providers are duty bound to safeguard the data of citizens or face legal action by the empowered consumers.

5.     Similarly, for making Aadhaar mandatory for targeting beneficiaries, the UIDAI will have to make necessary legal modifications so that it does not violate the privacy of citizens. We already know that Aadhaar of the NDA govt shares very little with the Aadhaar of the UPA. The NDA Aadhaar has legislative backing, its verification process is far stricter and numerous fake accounts enrolled during the UPA regime are being removed.

I also read an article written by Sri. Gopal Sankaranarayanan in times of India he is an advocate in the supreme court of India, he describes this judgement as one of the remarkable ones in the history of the supreme court.

Sri. Gopal Sankaranarayanan argued on behalf of the Government of India in this case.

So, all in all, Let us all welcome the 7^th fundamental right.

This law will also help us in not giving away our personal data to mega analytics tycoons who convert our buying patterns and preferences into "meta data" and sell it to E-commerce giants.

Thanks for your time, until next time bye.

Friends and Friendship- An experience to cherish.

Hello readers

Hope all of you are happy and well.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

-Elbert Hubbard

There are certain people in this world who mean something to you, the word something here can be close to you, or you respect them or you consider them as your role model or he or she is your teacher or may be a friend.

Focusing on friends today.

When we are born we know only a few people actually very few, your mom, dad, siblings and some very close relatives, until you learn to speak we would have responded everything with a smile or weep if we don’t like what is presented in front of our half blurred eyesight, as life is very dynamic we grow up and start becoming more social.

In this modern era, the second circle of people we will meet is in our kindergarten or the Montessori or your nanny who will baby sit you if you have working parents.

Then you join a school where you will learn your first steps of group dynamics and group psychology sitting with your classmates that is when you would have heard and learned the word “friend”.

From then on till one day when you become an old man or women carrying a cane you will be with few people or groups of people whom you would be associated with and call them your “friends”.

Are friends important in our lives and what is their part in your life, in your happiness in your sadness and success, do they play a major part, let us discuss?

Source:https://thesciencedog.wordpress.com/tag/dogs-and-cats/

For instance let me take my own example I am person who is kind of intellectual and like to interact with people about issues which concern society as well the solutions to resolve them and always think about how better can the place where I live around to be made better for others as well as me, and I am person who loves animals ok, to keep it simple I am a rationalist and an animal welfarist.

So when I meet a person my perception towards him to consider him as my friend and think if he can get along with me would be the above-mentioned criteria, which we know as what we call it as like-mindedness.

Like my example, I know you all will also have a certain criteria when you meet people and try to understand them, for me If I meet someone who hates animals and is more materialistic I would keep my distance from him or her, definitely it's not that we have personal grudge towards each other but it is simply not just try to be with him or her and then have quarreled and broken away which is not the solution for any problem.

The summary for the above two paras is that we need to choose our friends very carefully, because the sad part is many of the people in the world actually don’t have real friends, I know all your eyebrows are up now and you want me to prove how am I so confident will try to assimilate  my argument.

See friendship is actually considered above all relationships except for that relationship of a mother and child.

Therefore it is supposed to be a very joyful and truthful one isn't it? But actually just think right now as you are reading this how many of your own people whom you think are close friends are ready be there for you or you are ready to be there for them I am sorry I am not trying to doubt your friendship but  truth is bitter, even though the answer is entirely not negative to be frank it is positive most of the time as every one of us will have at least few friends who are there for us for life and likewise.

The last two lines of the previous paragraph are the real friends.

But still, there are few people who will never get any help from anyone which is sad.

See friendship according to me is not just the peers whom you study irrespective of your school or college and you develop that closeness with them as you would have helped them and they help you back in various academic and personal issues, if that person continues to be in the same mood and reserves that position for you even after a long time that you can tell he wants to be a real friend to you.

See it is basically when you meet someone and you spend some time with them, you will realize your minds match, that is when you establish rapport but will this bond be strong depends on both of you.

I am blessed to have some very good friends in my life, but I tell you I have only a few, which I am glad, and please I don’t believe in this online friendship given to us by Facebook and various other social media sites, even though many of you may feel it is very legitimate I don't feel so because  consonance as deeper meaning than just chatting on a portal.

The friends group you are in your  life will play some part in shaping you as an individual, if we  have a  weak character we may get carried away in doing bad deeds and becoming hero in a wrong way, always be careful about what your friends intend to do and stay away if it is against your principles and what you believe is right.

Indian Society and friends.

I am specifically commenting on this because Indian society and  Indian psychology have some concerns which have to change, there are some mediocre people who judge friendships especially if your close friend is an opposite sex, can you believe this! Why should there be a gossip about such things and people just making stuff up, are we so jobless worrying about others affairs, this is seriously bad for Indian society,  let us all try to put some sense to such people who think if you are friend of good looking man, or if a women’s best friend is a beautiful man some folks  keep on spreading nonsense around which are totally useless, we need to change this trend. 

Friendship is heavenly and is actually understanding a person and his problems and helping that person to swim out of it and being part of his or joys which will be gladly returned by your friend that is friendship it is above materialism for sure, we all should enjoy this experience until we live, and build your friends  and set a goal so that all of you and your friends can work towards it and do something better for this world, which will help the have-nots.

source:http://www.lovemeow.com/unlikely-friendship-cat-rat-and-dog-1608203956.html

Thank you all my dear friends who have always helped me and accepting me as I am.

let me know your thoughts and feedback in the comment box.

Thanks for your time, until next time goodbye.

Strife

Hello readers

Hope you are well.

People are waiting  to kill each other, how many are ready to save each other?

-Sri Jiddu Krishnamurti

           

I was reading the news lately when I came across this article about Kim Jong-un who is testing nuclear missiles, which has created tensions between Korea and USA.

Just of out curiosity I started reading little bit about war history.

Well some of the obvious highlights you learn when you read articles about war is: conflict is a very bitter experience for the people who are actually part of it, and the familes who lose them in the course of war.

Confrontation can alter the future of countries and make the future generations of that country to perish or sometimes even worse, a mutation the best example which can be quoted is the first and I hope the last nuclear bombing which happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the destruction from these bombs were so harsh that even the bomb makers had not imagined that it would devastate Japan to such an extent, the effects of are still evident ! 

       

Another takeaway which I  very much felt concerned about  was  the environment , have we ever thought about what foot prints a war leaves on the environment, where you just bomb in the intention of killing your enemy but you don’t even think about how much environment we destroy in the name of war and freedom.

What a pity the great humans are destroying this world before it can even be enjoyed for generations to come.

A Forest destroyed in the course of a wsr.

Just looking at the statistics it’s quite alarming for instance in the Vietnam war, the USA military forces used herbicides to destroy the foliage so that they flush out the enemies who were taking cover  in the forest.

Kim Jong-un who is testing nuclear missiles, is least concerned about the oceans he is destroying when his missiles fall into the ocean ,so we have not even spared the aquatic life.

The God or some of us who believe it as a force who created this world if he was here today would be sad today by seeing the trachery state  humans, who are just waiting to kill each other and also destroy all the nature in the spirit of war! Which is of course one the reasons .

Why not choose peace over war, why have all of us  ended up hating each other and always trying to get better of somwthing from someone which you don’t have? can you not be satisfied with what you have.

Nature should never become the victim of war; remember if there is no nature we are history.

I think we have had enough wars in the world let us start working towards a world which thinks in sympathy and empathy towards its neighbors.

I pray for all the brave souls who gave up their lives during many  wars.

 There should be only goal to all the decision makers and leaders of various countries that should be: world peace.

Why can’t the great forces of the world think about peace and negotiations, tell me your thoughts in the comment box.

Thanks for your time.

Bot World-The Bizarre Future

Hello readers

Hope you all are fine.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

Paul R.Ehrlich

Technology is marching at swift pace and becoming more intelligent, advanced and automated each  day, is it healthy for the society? Well actually it is a debate, I was reading about monoacting and its difficulties, then I came across an article about monolog debates, I was very much interested and I have read the basics and  I am excited to try it out in my blog today.

So the rules of monolog debate is simple, the speaker will present his /her debate with both the “for” and “against” and the audience will provide a feedback and be part of either the “for” or the against.

In my case I would present you the debate you could take sides through the comment box seems simple? So Let’s begin.

The topic “Robots and artificial intelligence a boon or a bane for planet earth”

Robots or automata (first word coined for robots by Egyptians) commonly called as droids have been part of human civilization from ancient times, and they have always been made in the spirit betterment of human society and automation to minimize the human effort in doing mechanical work.

At times they have also been used to protect civilizations for instance in ancient Asia there is a scripture which describes how Buddha’s relics were protected by robots called bhuta Vahana Yantra from Roma Vishay (Rome).

Leonardo Da-Vinci a great inventor and artist around the year 1495 built a robot which acted like a mechanical knight to protect his king!

In modern period post-industrial evolution we can see robots are on a high run used in almost all industries which has definitely helped in building better products with great precision and quality.

So will there be a day where we end up being ruled by droids? There ends the “for” part of my debate.

Now I will try contradicting all the good I spoke about robots.

Even though robots are helping us so much are there not risks involved? Well you may ask what the risk is of course a human has programmed it and you can pull the plug out and it becomes just a junk of metal instantly. But this is not as easy as it is told with the concept high security control rooms and panels there will be definitely levels of access and steps which you might need to take before you could just switch it off!

But there was recent news on the internet about Facebook which absolutely shocked me. Read this!

Article Source: Andrew Griffin for the Independent.co.uk

Facebook abandoned an experiment after two artificially intelligent programs appeared to be chatting to each other in a strange language only they understood.

The two chatbots came to create their own changes to English that made it easier for them to work – but which remained mysterious to the humans that supposedly look after them.

The bizarre discussions came as Facebook challenged its chatbots to try and negotiate with each other over a trade, attempting to swap hats, balls and books, each of which were given a certain value. But they quickly broke down as the robots appeared to chant at each other in a language that they each understood but which appears mostly incomprehensible to humans.

The robots had been instructed to work out how to negotiate between themselves, and improve their bartering as they went along. But they were not told to use comprehensible English, allowing them to create their own "shorthand", according to researchers.

The actual negotiations appear very odd, and don't look especially useful:

Bob: i can i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

Bob: you i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me

Bob: i i can i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alice: balls have a ball to me to me to me to me to me to me to me

Bob: i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

Bob: you i i i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alice: balls have 0 to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

Bob: you i i i everything else . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Alice: balls have zero to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to me to

But there appear to be some rules to the speech. The way the chatbots keep stressing their own name appears to a part of their negotiations, not simply a glitch in the way the messages are read out.

Indeed, some of the negotiations that were carried out in this bizarre language even ended up successfully concluding their negotiations, while conducting them entirely in the bizarre language.

Thanks for the independent for the article; so what happened above is it not shocking?

It’s just out a James Cameron’s science fiction series “Terminator- the Judgement day” well the imagination of this great guy proved out it be an inexplicable reality!

So  too much automation and building humanoid robots may fade away what we believe to be real world and make it a more programmed world, and we becoming slaves to the automata one day?

Doesn’t you feel a chill from the back of your spine?  It is terrible to think that such a thing happened at Facebook who knows it could have happened somewhere else but it would not have been reported.

So we are talking about artificial intelligence and the ultra-modernization of society, but I definitely sense that it is a double edged sword it can hurt its creators a pretty nasty cut, imagine a day when you here a news that some density of population just devastating due to some malfunctions in artificial intelligence bots which controlled a nuclear rocket triggered itself with such type negotiate machine language?! With some other military bot?

Conclusion:

There are for sure superb applications where robots and artificial intelligence gadgets can be and should be used and are being used  which would help reduce human life risk and also has whole lot of advantages,  but I am not sure using it as companion, a war assistant ?  I think that place should always be reserved to the most skilled humans no one else.

Too much control given to machines with lesser supervision by us will only risk the survival of mankind and all the animals.

Please think and discuss with your peers and let me know your feedback.