The month of October 2016 saw 3.2 million cards being compromised in India and crores stolen online. November and December saw twitter handles of Rahul Gandhi, Indian National Congress and prominent journalists being hacked. We were also told our ATM machines run on a Windows version that is almost archaeological (and not maintained by Microsoft any more). Attorney General, Mukul Rohatgi, on a separate matter on Aadhaar, has already told Supreme Court, back in July that Indians do not have a fundamental right to data privacy. So our data is not protected by the State, our security systems are not robust enough to safeguard our data, yet we will be forced into a digital economy which necessitates we put financial data online, on digital platforms. The term Kafkaesque pales in front of such absurd torment! Nikhil Pahwa of Medianama has written a brilliant piece on the expense and dangers of going cashless, but where are the big media prime time debates on this subject?