Bacteria@lemmy.oneOPtoWorld News@beehaw.org•‘If you don’t take off your clothes, we will kill you’: Kuki women paraded naked in Manipur, India
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1 year agoThe conflict was triggered when the state High Court gave a verdict in favour of the Meiti community for a long standing demand for special previliges.
The Wikipedia article about the violence has a good overview.
The data leak is of AADHAR database. Which is a proof of identity that is required by everyone to avail government services. It is even used for SIM registration and opening bank account.
Government has been recently trying to link Voter IDs to AADHAR. It is already linked to Tax Account called PAN.
It has been turned it to a surveillance tool and this leak can be huge if true.