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The Mobile Phone
Don’t leave home without your health passport!
think health passports (or medical proof
of vaccination etc) are here to stay. Being
healthy will become more important.
This will apply both to local travel and
international travel. So along with carrying
your driver’s license, Aadhar cards,
passports and other documents, carrying
your health documents with you will
become important.
Social Behaviour
Spitting in India is prolific and a barrier to development Too much private information is flowing to public domain
While the optimists tell us how we are
racing towards development our social
behaviour belies the fact that we are still a
developing country. In spite of the progress
made by Swachh Bharat, other behaviours
like spitting on the road, will be a barrier to
development. So is jostling each other in a
queue, or to board a bus or train. Until we
learn to be more patient with each other and
extend public courtesy to other citizens we
might continue to exhibit all the signs of a
poor country.
SENIORS TODAY | ISSUE #31 | JANUARY 2022
Smartphones will be our “go to”; but at a price
The mobile phone will continue to be
our repository of personal data. Our
health records, our bank accounts, our
insurance, and every other kind of personal
information will continue to be stored on
this device.
This will make us more prone to scam
attacks.
Privacy
It is about time that citizens get together to
fight for better privacy laws in our country.
Receiving a few scam calls a day has now
become routine and we are almost immune
to it. The public tool of DnD is rendered
practically useless. Unsolicited calling
needs to be banned. Also our personal
data is available to all and sundry. Our
health and car insurances, for example,
have become public property along with
our phone numbers. Our car registration
numbers are available publicly even
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