[reallymental]

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.

[deadalus]

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

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

[OmegaPG]

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.

[_trampeltier]

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-...

[juancb]

What does RS 65 Croer mean?

[chrismorgan]

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.

[Clewza313]

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

[perryizgr8]

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

Tool I wrote to convert between Indian and American numbers.

65 crore = 650 million

[kuschku]

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

[chrismorgan]

> 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).

[kuschku]

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

[chrismorgan]

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.