[datameet] Re: Any privacy issue in publishing names of voters?

2018-10-31 Thread Sachin Kalsi
Where can I get the voter list details (name , ID etc) in ENGLISH ? If I see Karnataka's voter list, it will be in Kannada. If I see Bihar's, it will be in HINDI & so on Is there any way one can get voter list in ENGLISH ? On Monday, 2 March 2015 09:35:10 UTC+5:30, Anand Chitipothu wrote: >

Re: [datameet] Re: Any privacy issue in publishing names of voters?

2015-03-03 Thread Anand Chitipothu
I've published the names of people in Andhra Pradesh (including Telangana as the data was collected before the split). https://archive.org/details/india-names-dataset Will plan to add more states soon. Found very interesting facts by looking at the data. The age of oldest person is 891 years

Re: [datameet] Re: Any privacy issue in publishing names of voters?

2015-03-03 Thread Snehashish Ghosh
Replug: My take on privacy related issues with respect to publication of electoral databases. http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/electoral-databases-2013-privacy-and-security-concerns I would also like to highlight that the main issue which needs to discussed is the requirement of

Re: [datameet] Re: Any privacy issue in publishing names of voters?

2015-03-02 Thread Anand Chitipothu
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I think the best way to go forward is to publish frequency of individual words in the names per birth year. For example, raw data like: 1978 Vamsi Krishna 1978 Gopala Krishna would become: 1978 Vamsi 1 1978 Gopala 1 1978 Krishna 2 I think that'll make

[datameet] Re: Any privacy issue in publishing names of voters?

2015-03-02 Thread sandeep
Data of voter name, age, gender at booth level is already available on respective EC official sites. I do not see additional risk by aggregating data to booth-constituency/district-state level. It will help data community to draw meaningful inferences through aggregated, cleaned data. On