The man who built the online attendance system for India’s government officials
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#2Nice idea for taking the class attendance register at College/school.
Just mild concern about the biometric data being stored centrally.
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#3How come there are no concerns about privacy? Most of the people's email ID and personal phone numbers are visible in that site
Re: The man who built the online attendance system for India’s government officials
#4Url changed from http://scroll.in/article/683083/Meet-the-man-who-built-the-a..., which points to this.
Re: The man who built the online attendance system for India’s government officials
#5How come there are no concerns about privacy? Most of the people's email ID and personal phone numbers are visible in that site
They are public officials and those are public contact details.
Re: The man who built the online attendance system for India’s government officials
#6Nice idea for taking the class attendance register at College/school. Just mild concern about the biometric data being stored centrally.
They probably chose the biometric data option over ID cards to prevent buddy punching.
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#7How come there are no concerns about privacy? Most of the people's email ID and personal phone numbers are visible in that site
They are public officials and those are public contact details.
I would be a lot happier if this applied equally to the elected officials as much as the bureaucracy. What makes it difficult is what is the "office" for elected officials. One can argue that they are making more of a difference on the "field" rather than the parliament, but usually the reality is that they are mostly twiddling thumbs somewhere else entirely and that would be the better case scenario, the more common case would be that they are too busy counting the money.
Re: The man who built the online attendance system for India’s government officials
#8Nice idea for taking the class attendance register at College/school. Just mild concern about the biometric data being stored centrally.
They probably chose the biometric data option over ID cards to prevent buddy punching.
If they packaged this up and provided an optional ID card scanner front end could be useful.
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#9When I saw the screenshots of this article, it reminded me how much stress my indian colleagues were dealing with, a year ago.
We have worked some time together on a project with Indian people (still friends with them, awesome people) and the way they explained their working environment was not really appealing at all unfortunately.
They were indirectly forced to worked more than eight hours a day (around 9 to 10), and was required to report everyday to their managers about the progress done during the day in a stylesheet. Their managers were trying cut off financially as much as they can to save some more money in the department so that managers can get extra money at the end of year depending on the savings.
This caused employees more stress, more work, less comfort and less time with family. Since there are already a lot of people waiting to get job out there, they did not have much choice but accept the companies' rules..
I am hoping for a more trust oriented employer-employee relationships for my indian fellows..
Re: The man who built the online attendance system for India’s government officials
#10How come there are no concerns about privacy? Most of the people's email ID and personal phone numbers are visible in that site
They are public officials and those are public contact details.
If you look at the data.gov site, you will find datasets from Chicago police department that contains official names and how much salary they withdraw, everything public.