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Voter Registration tool: Why Election Commission dumped Google
21) Classical English
BSP
believed in raising money through the donations by party leaders and
workers and not from business houses or traders.Party leaders and workers also sacrifice their time and talent. SP believes in goonda raj
which is their real ideology. RSS’s BJP believe in collecting unethical
money in the name of GURU DAKSHAN which is unaccounted and both SP and
BJP are funded by business houses or traders which causes sky rocketing price rise, black money and corruption. Neither SP nor BJP can ever dream of gathering more than 20lakhs people in RamaBhai
Ambedkar stadium. They have to rely on caste and communal
discriminating CEC that draped the elephant symbol including the ones
with raised trunks and all SC/ST/OBC leaders’ statues that never draped hands of congress or national flower lotus of BJP when their ruled assemblies
went for polls. The CEC never ordered for draping the statues of
Congress and BJP upper caste leaders statues. The CEC has not made
public the SOURCE CODE of the program of Voting machines which are not
tamper proof. But for the highly corrupt and caste, communal
newspapers,magazines and media BJP or the SP would not have won
elections. Just like Mandela who fought against
race discrimination Dr Ambedkar, Kanshiram and Ms Mayawati’s party is
against caste and communal discrimination through Sarv Samaj Sadbhavan
i.e., through All Societies unity.
Attend in large numbers for Rashtriya Savdhan Maharally
(national vigilant rally) at the Ramabai Ambedkar ground in Lucknow on
January 15, birthday of party chief Mayawati.
THE ONLY ALTERNATE AND HOPE OF THE
NATION IS ELEPHANT 
OF BSP!
PEOPLE ARE JUST FED UP WITH CONGRESS, OTHER REGIONAL PARTIES AND BJP!
HENCE TO CAPTURE THE MASTER KEY !
ENTIRE PEOPLE HAVE TO AWAKEN WITH AWARENESS!
FOR THEIR WELFARE, HAPPINESS AND PEACE!
AS FINAL GOAL TO ACHIEVE ETERNAL BLISS!
Get ready to show progress
in strengthening BSP’s base among the ‘ALL SOCIETY‘ and
prepare for “CAREFUL HUGE GRAND RALLY” slated for on January
15.
Google To Help Election Commission In 2014 Polls
Bangalore: Registration information which is used to control who votes
is made easy with Election Commission of India tie-up with search giant
Google even before the political alliance yet to gear up for the 2014
polls.
In coming six months, Google will offer its resources including its
search engine to help users check their enrolment status online and
locate their polling station, complete with directions using Google
Maps, to ease polling. The tie-up is to be finalized late in January and
be operational by end of the month.
Thus the only thing people have to do is to type in their names and
address on Google Search and find their names matching on the list in
the assembly or Lok Sabha constituencies they belong to. This agreement
helps not just the EC in making its work simple but it will help the
people in clarifying their doubt regarding registration , polling
stations etc.
The internet giant is offering similar services to other the other
countries of the world. The EC is also apparently planning to take help
from Google in announcement of the 2014 election results through its
servers in 5 states by the end of May. For the same reason EC has signed
an agreement with Akamai a U.S. based IT firm where the ECI would
handle the hits on the day of counting.
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http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ec-turns-down-googles-proposal-for-voter-registration-tool/article5557857.ece
EC turns down Googleβs proposal for voter registration tool
J. Balaji
The Hindu
Election Commission has decided not to pursue its proposed tie-up with
internet giant Google after concerns over national security were raised
from several quarters, including major parties. File photo
The Election Commission on Thursday turned down the proposal of the U.S.
based internet search engine Google to have an βelectoral look up
services for citizensβ even as BJP Rajya Sabha MP Tarun Vijay made a
forceful plea before the Commission to abort any such proposal.
βGoogle made a presentation to the Commission for electoral look up
services for citizens to help in its efforts for better electoral
information services. However, after due consideration, the Commission
has decided not to pursue the proposal any further,β an EC press note
said.
Mr. Vijay, who submitted a memorandum to Chief Election Commissioner
V.S. Sampath and Election Commissioner H.S. Brahma, wanted them to
reject the Googleβs proposal as it would be against the interests of the
nation and its security.
βGoogleβs activities have been violating the Indian laws governing
mapping policy and I have raised the issue before the Defence Minister
and an enquiry is pending. The CBI and the Delhi police are seized of
the matter,β he claimed.
An FIR had been lodged with the approval of the Government of India by
the Surveyor-General of India in Delhi against the security violations
by Google India private limited relating to national map restriction
policy, he alleged.
Later Mr. Vijay told The Hindu that the defence experts and the
intelligence agencies were too worried about the growing clout of Google
and its explicit American connections in view of the U.S. National
Security Agencyβs snooping activities in India.
Google Indiaβs representatives made presentation before the Commission
on Tuesday in which the National Information Centre officials were
present.
A senior officer of the Commission had on Wednesday told The Hindu :
βFirst we should feel comfortable before finalising anything and we
donβt want to get heckled in the election year. Nothing has been decided
and it is only at preliminary stage.β
The Google, earlier in a statement, said it did not intend to make voter
registration tool for India and had only made suggestions to the
Commission on improving such a tool based on its own experience with
making products that were easy to use.
The Googleβs presentation was about βchanging the way users access their
electoral information, that is publicly available, which would make
their experience simpler, faster and consistent through a national
online look-up tool.β
Google had already helped governments of some countries to make their public election information more accessible to voters.
βNo private information changes hands β this is all about making public
information thatβs already on the Web more useful to the public… Our
discussions with EC have been preliminary and ongoing,β the Google
statement said.
Besides the BJP and a few cyber experts who have expressed concern on
the EC-Google tie-up, the legal cell of the Congress had written a
letter to the EC raising security concerns.
The
caste and communal parties Congress and BJP are comfortable with the
Existing voting system as it serves their vested interest and sees that
they remain the rulers of this country. The cats have come out of the
bags for the proposal of Google.
Google must support all societies emancipation to save democracy.
The
CEC had draped all the Elephant symbols of BSP when Ms Mayawati was the
CM of UP and also the statues of SC/ST/OBC historical leaders who
fought against caste and communal system as done by Nelson Mandela
against Raceism. Casteism is worst than raceism.
When the Congress
and RSS’s BJP ruled states went for assembly elections after UP. The EC
never bothered to drape all hands of Congress and the Natioinal flower
Lotus of BJP and the upper caste leaders statues which is nothing but
traditional caste discrimination practiced by the EC.
2) The
Voting machines are not tamper proof. Google must see that the SOURCE
CODE of the program of the Voting machine made public.
http://www.firstpost.com/india/voter-registration-tool-why-election-commission-dumped-google-1333501.html
Firstpost
India
Voter registration tool: Why Election Commission dumped Google
Jan 10, 2014
#Election Commission #Google #Spying #Voter registeration
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New Delhi: The Election Commission dropped plans on Thursday to partner
Google Inc on a project to ease voter access to information, after a
backlash against the move from campaigners who claimed Google and the US
government could use the data for spying.
Google, which works with governments in other countries including Mexico
and the Philippines on similar programmes, said it has not talked with
the government about any project that would have involved data not
already publicly available.
India, the world’s largest democracy, will go to the polls in a general
election due by May. Google, the world’s No.1 search engine, had pitched
a project to the Election Commission to help create a simpler and
faster tool for voters to check whether they were registered correctly
or not.
Representational image: Reuters
Representational image: Reuters
But the plan was opposed by the Indian Infosec Consortium, a government
and private sector-backed alliance of cyber security experts. The group
said in a statement last week it feared Google would collaborate with
“American agencies” for espionage purposes.
Google would have shared the software tools required with India and
offered the help of its engineers in a non-commercial agreement, Gaurav
Bhaskar, a spokesman for Google’s Indian unit, said. But the election
panel was free to decide on hiring another company’s services for
hosting the data, he said.
The Election Commission did not give a reason for dropping the plan. But
an official, who did not want to be named, told Reuters that Google’s
proposal was not a major improvement on its existing website, and that
Google’s involvement had drawn criticism in India.
U.S. electronic surveillance practices have been in the spotlight after
damaging disclosures from former spy contractor Edward Snowden.
India-U.S. relations have also been damaged by a spat over the arrest
and strip search of an Indian diplomat in New York last month.
“Google is committed to help make public information on the web easily
accessible to internet users across the country,” Google said in a
statement.
“It is unfortunate that our discussion with the Election Commission of
India to change the way users access their electoral information, which
is publicly available, through an online voter look up tool, were not
fruitful,” it added.
A member of the ruling Congress Party said the plan was a “sensitive
issue” and that political parties had not been consulted. A spokeswoman
for the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party said that the Election
Commission needed to protect voter data.
“After due consideration, the Commission has decided not to pursue the
proposal any further,” the regulator said in a brief statement on its
website on Thursday.
This is not the first time Google has faced political heat in India. The
country’s federal mapping agency had last year filed a police complaint
that Google had violated rules by asking users to add information about
their local area for its online map services.
In 2011, police in Bangalore ordered Google to suspend a Street View
service over security concerns, three weeks after the company started
collecting images from the city.
Reuters
Read more at: http://www.firstpost.com/india/voter-registration-tool-why-election-commission-dumped-google-1333501.html?utm_source=ref_article
INDIA
Firstpost
India
Voter registration tool: Why Election Commission dumped Google
Jan 10, 2014
#Election Commission #Google #Spying #Voter registeration
inShare
1 CommentEmailPrint
New Delhi: The Election Commission dropped plans on Thursday to partner
Google Inc on a project to ease voter access to information, after a
backlash against the move from campaigners who claimed Google and the US
government could use the data for spying.
Google, which works with governments in other countries including Mexico
and the Philippines on similar programmes, said it has not talked with
the government about any project that would have involved data not
already publicly available.
India, the world’s largest democracy, will go to the polls in a general
election due by May. Google, the world’s No.1 search engine, had pitched
a project to the Election Commission to help create a simpler and
faster tool for voters to check whether they were registered correctly
or not.
Representational image: Reuters
Representational image: Reuters
But the plan was opposed by the Indian Infosec Consortium, a government
and private sector-backed alliance of cyber security experts. The group
said in a statement last week it feared Google would collaborate with
“American agencies” for espionage purposes.
Google would have shared the software tools required with India and
offered the help of its engineers in a non-commercial agreement, Gaurav
Bhaskar, a spokesman for Google’s Indian unit, said. But the election
panel was free to decide on hiring another company’s services for
hosting the data, he said.
The Election Commission did not give a reason for dropping the plan. But
an official, who did not want to be named, told Reuters that Google’s
proposal was not a major improvement on its existing website, and that
Google’s involvement had drawn criticism in India.
U.S. electronic surveillance practices have been in the spotlight after
damaging disclosures from former spy contractor Edward Snowden.
India-U.S. relations have also been damaged by a spat over the arrest
and strip search of an Indian diplomat in New York last month.
“Google is committed to help make public information on the web easily
accessible to internet users across the country,” Google said in a
statement.
“It is unfortunate that our discussion with the Election Commission of
India to change the way users access their electoral information, which
is publicly available, through an online voter look up tool, were not
fruitful,” it added.
A member of the ruling Congress Party said the plan was a “sensitive
issue” and that political parties had not been consulted. A spokeswoman
for the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party said that the Election
Commission needed to protect voter data.
“After due consideration, the Commission has decided not to pursue the
proposal any further,” the regulator said in a brief statement on its
website on Thursday.
This is not the first time Google has faced political heat in India. The
country’s federal mapping agency had last year filed a police complaint
that Google had violated rules by asking users to add information about
their local area for its online map services.
In 2011, police in Bangalore ordered Google to suspend a Street View
service over security concerns, three weeks after the company started
collecting images from the city.
Reuters
Read more at: http://www.firstpost.com/india/voter-registration-tool-why-election-commission-dumped-google-1333501.html?utm_source=ref_article
New Delhi: The Election
Commission dropped plans on Thursday to partner Google Inc on a project
to ease voter access to information, after a backlash against the move
from campaigners who claimed Google and the US government could use the
data for spying.
Google, which works with governments in other countries including Mexico
and the Philippines on similar programmes, said it has not talked with
the government about any project that would have involved data not
already publicly available.
India, the world’s largest democracy, will go to the polls in a general
election due by May. Google, the world’s No.1 search engine, had pitched
a project to the Election Commission to help create a simpler and
faster tool for voters to check whether they were registered correctly
or not.
Read more at: http://www.firstpost.com/india/voter-registration-tool-why-election-commission-dumped-google-1333501.html?utm_source=ref_article
New Delhi: The Election
Commission dropped plans on Thursday to partner Google Inc on a project
to ease voter access to information, after a backlash against the move
from campaigners who claimed Google and the US government could use the
data for spying.
Google, which works with governments in other countries including Mexico
and the Philippines on similar programmes, said it has not talked with
the government about any project that would have involved data not
already publicly available.
India, the world’s largest democracy, will go to the polls in a general
election due by May. Google, the world’s No.1 search engine, had pitched
a project to the Election Commission to help create a simpler and
faster tool for voters to check whether they were registered correctly
or not.
Read more at: http://www.firstpost.com/india/voter-registration-tool-why-election-commission-dumped-google-1333501.html?utm_source=ref_article
Jagatheesan Chandrasekharan
The caste and communal parties Congress and BJP are comfortable with the
Existing voting system as it serves their vested interest and sees that
they remain the rulers of this country. The cats have come out of the
bags for the proposal of Google.
Google must support all societies emancipation to save democracy.
The
CEC had draped all the Elephant symbols of BSP when Ms Mayawati was the
CM of UP and also the statues of SC/ST/OBC historical leaders who
fought against caste and communal system as done by Nelson Mandela
against Raceism. Casteism is worst than raceism.
When the Congress
and RSS’s BJP ruled states went for assembly elections after UP. The EC
never bothered to drape all hands of Congress and the Natioinal flower
Lotus of BJP and the upper caste leaders statues which is nothing but
traditional caste discrimination practiced by the EC.
2) The
Voting machines are not tamper proof. Google must see that the SOURCE
CODE of the program of the Voting machine made public.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-ces-2014-why-3d-printing-matters-20140109,0,2759022.story#axzz2q0ATedZ4
CES 2014: Could 3D printing change the world?
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Items are printed with a 3D
printer at the Robo3D company stand at the 2014 Consumer Electronics
Show in Las Vegas.
(Britta Pedersen / EPA)
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By Salvador Rodriguez
January 9, 2014, 5:08 p.m.
LAS VEGAS — Even though 3D printing is all the rage at the Consumer Electronics Show, many people outside the industry are still puzzled by all the fuss.
“Explain 3D printers to
me. Why are they useful?” one non-techie friend of mine tweeted me this
week, after I posted a picture of a 3D printer at the show.
By the way, there are 28 3D printing exhibitors at the show, up from
just eight in 2013, according to Gary Shapiro, the president and chief
executive of the Consumer Electronics Assn., which organizes the show.
PHOTOS: 10 Tech gadgets we want to see in 2014
So I asked several of the companies why they are so excited about 3D
printing, and more important, what the technology could mean to regular
folks.
“It puts the power to make an object or manufacture an object in
anyone’s hands. You no longer need to go to a factory,” said Daniel
Cowen, co-founder of 3Doodler, a 3D printing pen.
Cowen’s product, the 3Doodler, lets users sketch out their ideas like
any other pen, but unlike regular pens, the 3Doodler can also sketch
objects in a 3D space, meaning the things they sketch come off the
paper.
Another company at the show was XYZprinting, which plans to start
selling a 3D printer called the Da Vinci later this year for $499 — one
of the cheapest 3D printers to hit the market.
Gary Shu, XYZprinting’s market development division senior manager,
said the 3D printer can quickly create objects that users may need in
their homes, such as a plastic cup or a plastic spoon.
“With 3D printing, you just get a design from the Internet, press the button and print at home,” he said.
Right now, users can download files in order to create objects using a
3D printer. They can also create objects using software such as
Leopoly.
Gyorgy Simo, chief executive of Leonar3Do, the makers of Leopoly,
compared the potential of 3D printers to that of the Internet, saying 3D
printers could change the world. While the Internet gave users the
ability to have instant access to information, 3D printers will give
users the ability to instantly create objects.
In the future, users may be able to print shoes that are tailored to
the exact size of their feet, among many possibilities. They may also be
able to buy products directly from online retailers and print them out
immediately, rather than wait for the item to ship.
“It’s closer than you think,” Simo said.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-ces-2014-why-3d-printing-matters-20140109,0,2759022.story#ix
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http://www.siliconindia.com/news/technology/Google-To-Help-Election-Commission-In-2014-Polls-nid-158848-cid-2.html
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