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Jaitley justifies rejection of Aadhaar law amendments
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday defended the government’s stand on the Aadhaar law and said the Lok Sabha was right in rejecting amendments pushed by the opposition in the Rajya Sabha.
“Had the amendments proposed in the Rajya Sabha been accepted, encroachment on the right to privacy would be much wider,” the minister said in a Facebook post, adding that the Lok Sabha “did not agree” with the views of the upper house.
“The Oversight Committee, on issues of national security, would have consisted of either an auditor or an anti-corruption authority, and the money bill would have gone beyond the scope of the money bill.
“These lacunae would have pushed the Aadhaar law into the realm of unconstitutionality. Obviously, the Lok Sabha did not agree with the above suggestions, and in my view, rightly so,” the minister wrote.
The amendments suggested by the Rajya Sabha to Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Bill, 2016, were rejected by the Lok Sabha on March 16. The Bill was subsequently passed by the lower house of parliament.
The 2016 Aadhaar law, the minister said, contained stringent provisions both substantially and procedurally with regard to the right to privacy.
He said the core biometric information cannot be shared with any person, even with the consent of the Aadhaar card holder.
“The Congress, using its superior numbers in the Rajya Sabha, forced an amendment to replace the words ‘national security’ with ‘public emergency or in the interest of public safety’. None of these two phrases are well defined. They are vague and can be elastic,” Jaitley said.
The minister said that the opposition-sponsored amendments, as approved by the Rajya Sabha, had certain “lacunae”.
Explaining in details the “potential ramifications” of the five amendments brought by the Rajya Sabha, he said, “There has understandably been an extensive public debate on the need for the unique identity number for each resident and the desirability of not compromising with the right to privacy.”
“I have always strongly believed that, notwithstanding the jurisprudential debate on the right to privacy, it would be essential to recognise that privacy is an essential aspect of personal liberty guaranteed by article 21 of the constitution. The denial of privacy must thus be based on procedure which should be fair, just and reasonable,” he said.
International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.
Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.
The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.
“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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