India orders mandatory security app on phones, Apple refuses to comply (Update)

[ZedRM]

The app is in the app store. Instead of spewing blatant ignorance, you guys could have installed it and checked it out and then deleted it.

It offers the following services:
1) Report suspected fraud communication
2) Block lost/stolen mobile
3) Find fraudulent connections registered on your name
4) Check genuineness of your mobile handset
5) Report incoming international calls that seem suspicious

The app size is 16 MB. Instead of the app, you can also go to the Sanchar Saathi site and do the same. The app is obviously more convenient. Before this app/site, getting all these services was a bureaucratic nightmare as you had to manually go to multiple different places to get things done.

To the author, as someone who actually understands the context of this news, your article seems very shallow and borderline propaganda-ish. When I come to Techspot, I expect to learn new things. Tech-related things. Not dispel ignorance about my country or its government.

You're claiming some else has failed at context while at the same time failing at context. Irony much?

Whenever a government makes something mandatory in the way that is being done here, it opens the door for abusive activities by said government. It does not matter what the starting intentions are, this is an intrusion that smacks heavily of the type of impositions flexed of a tyranny. Such things are in no way condusive to a civilized society.

 

[ScottSoapbox]

It is already in the app store...it is amazing how people like to talk about things they know next to nothing about.

It's amazing how many people comment on articles they don't read.

The point in the article you didn't read is the government is pressuring tech firms to not only preinstall it but to make it undeleteable which does not sound very "voluntary and democratic" as claimed by said government.

 

[Sayak Biswas]

It's amazing how many people comment on articles they don't read.

The point in the article you didn't read is the government is pressuring tech firms to not only preinstall it but to make it undeleteable which does not sound very "voluntary and democratic" as claimed by said government.

1) The article itself is shoddy and borderline propaganda-ish
2) You are assuming things about who read what....
3) I have already explained everything, but your comprehension skills don't seem to match up to your reading skills

Its amazing how many people are not as smart/knowledgeable as they think.

 

[ZedRM]

1) The article itself is shoddy and borderline propaganda-ish
2) You are assuming things about who read what....
3) I have already explained everything, but your comprehension skills don't seem to match up to your reading skills

Its amazing how many people are not as smart/knowledgeable as they think.

Irony! It is not ok for governments to make such mandates. Quit being a defender of such deplorable and pathetic behavior.

 

[Underdog]

Given India's recent move to cosy up to Putin, I would be severely suspcious of any software you couldn't remove from your phone.