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A compulsory mandated app installed on every Indian citizen's new phone (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by disaster2life@leminal.space to c/india@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/35150814

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/if-you-don-t-want-jyotiraditya-scindia-says-sanchar-saathi-app-is-optional-amid-strong-opposition-protests-11764659707854.html

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[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago

And people are not even going to retaliate, because they don't know how bad this is.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Can you, um, jailbreak the phone somehow to uninstall it?

[–] zjti8eit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

This seems incredible stupid, like most things governments do.

[–] raven@piefed.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

This is a direct breach of privacy. We don't know what this app collects and does with it. As long as this malware can be uninstalled, it'd be fine.