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Is there any financial incentive to secure an Indian citizen's data ?

In fact, there's more financial incentive to make things leaky, less work needs to be done to peek into your neighbors yard, and the vast (vast, vast) majority of the people cannot give a damn about this.

Frankly, I'm surprised they replied with an acknowledgement and tried to fix some vulns.

Expect no more changes.

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Indian Government Sold Driver Licence Data to 87 Private Companies for Rs 65 Crore -

https://www.news18.com/news/auto/government-sold-drivers-lic...

What does RS 65 Croer mean?

Crore = 10 million, so 650 million rupees, or around $9M USD.

Rs means rupees, specifically Indian rupees in this case, which has the symbol ₹ and code INR. (Other countries have rupees as well, but that symbol is specifically for Indian rupees.)

One crore is 10 million in the Indian numbering system, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore.

Crore is equivalent to 10e6. In this case, that would evaluate to 650'000'000 INR.

> 10e6

Under scientific notation, you should strongly prefer to write 1e7. 10e6 is just begging for people to interpret it as 10⁶ rather than 10×10⁶ (10⁷).

But that's the definition, and every calculator's "engineering" mode shows it exactly like that, too. And usually you learn in middle school how to interpret that.

Here’s a photo with the calculator I used in middle school, showing exactly the specified number:

https://i.k8r.eu/qOUpgg.png

Curious. I don’t have a traditional calculator to hand, but tools like Rust, Python and Wolfram|Alpha are all turning 10e50 into 1e51.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#Normalized... agrees with my memory that in normalised form the coefficient should be at least one and less than ten.

MeE isn't M^E, it's defined as M * 10^E.

And that’s what I was talking about from the start—10e6 is 10×10⁶, which is in normalised form 1×10⁷ or 1e7.

And the paragraph below the one you linked... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#Engineerin... is directly showing exactly the mode I'm using :)

Oh, I get it and see what’s happening. Kinda careless of me to miss it. Thanks for pointing it out.

I can see how it’s not obvious if you never learnt it, but especially in when working with the SI it’s incredibly useful and makes many hidden relationships quickly obvious.

https://perryizgr8.github.io/crores-to-millions/

Tool I wrote to convert between Indian and American numbers.

65 crore = 650 million

The data is already publicly available via government sites and app store. By making the data public through 3rd parties, government just made it easy for public to access it.

Calofornia does it sell for 50Mio USD and Florida for 77Mio USD. I guess just everybody sell everything today.

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a32035408/dmv-selling-...

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