India backs down on requiring smartphone makers to preinstall state-run app
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- Anonymous
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- 05 Dec 2025
Casio, 04 Dec 2025where is the "dictator" comment for similar stori... moreWere you living under a rock?
- Vin Aigre
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- 04 Dec 2025
A, 04 Dec 2025I agree with you. But i think govt will always know who ar... moreSure. But they want also to know more personal things...
- Vin Aigre
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- 04 Dec 2025
Idkxx, 03 Dec 2025If it was really for people's good then why force itExactly, why do they force something what is good for you? It has no sense.
If it is really good people will download it alone.
- Vin Aigre
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- 04 Dec 2025
Anonymous, 03 Dec 2025I honestly don't trust the government with my data - e... moreWell said.
- Vin Aigre
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- 04 Dec 2025
This reminds me the chatcontrol app in the EU.
I am curious if the europeans will accept it.
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- 04 Dec 2025
PomPomLover, 04 Dec 2025Because not all old people are able to understand "Pla... morenot everyone wants to blindly trust gov. they also dont have a good record with data security as can be seen by how aadhar data was handled.
intially the gov had even ordered to make the app uninstallable. now what good is that going to lead to? the gov later changed their statement. you could say maybe they made a mistake or maybe they are trying to protect seniors who might accidentally uninstall the app with their butt.
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- 04 Dec 2025
Idkxx, 03 Dec 2025If it was really for people's good then why force itBecause not all old people are able to understand "Play Store". By preloading, it is easily accessible to everyone. It's no different than having Facebook/Meta stuff preinstalled which is way worse and has been normalized everywhere.
People just use the notion of "Government bad" because it calls to their agenda and gets them clicks. I say that as someone who does not like our current government. Digital scams are a massive problem here and it's only been increasing.
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- Anonymous
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- 04 Dec 2025
Good to see the backlash against that junk being installed by default served of something.
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- Casio
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- 04 Dec 2025
where is the "dictator" comment for similar stories coming from China? Is India not a democratic country anymore?
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- Neeraj
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- 04 Dec 2025
The Indian govt is notoriously known to use spyware to surveil citizens. Good that it had to back down.
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- 04 Dec 2025
Anonymous, 04 Dec 2025All you said was a political comment.But it clearly give idea about government intent. (Most likely a malicious one)
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- 04 Dec 2025
S I R E, 04 Dec 2025I can give you at least 3 reasons without having to think t... moreYes, fully agree with you. Also, the aadhaar should never have happened. It is just a massive number taging system, the type used for slaves and endangered animals. Just can't trust this government.
Also as i said before, most of their voters are just innocent, unsuspecting and impulsive people who just got trapped by their publicity campaign through their lapdog media and whatsapp university. Right now they are just addicted to the conspiracy style content that this government creates, which usually involves religion and opposition foreign hand collusion kind of bizarre theories.
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- 04 Dec 2025
Anonymous, 03 Dec 2025I honestly don't trust the government with my data - e... moreI agree with you.
But i think govt will always know who are my parents, which hospital i born, DOB, time of birth etc.
Nobody can prevent this type of data access by govt or god or goon.
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- 04 Dec 2025
S I R E, 04 Dec 2025I can give you at least 3 reasons without having to think t... moreBut don't people like to live like cows.
Just 1 master and all cows are happy, safe, domesticated for lifelong with their children and grand children and so on.
I like this way very much but i wish i could be the master, not someone else.
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- Anonymous
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- 04 Dec 2025
S I R E, 04 Dec 2025I can give you at least 3 reasons without having to think t... moreAll you said was a political comment.
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- 04 Dec 2025
optionalieie, 04 Dec 2025Meanwhile in Indonesia A couple of months back their minis... moreImagine if police actually work to solve stolen phone cases lol, maybe in china/japan/singapore but in most countries there will be no follow up and most likely your perfectly legal phone is bricked by some rich business or government because you said something thay annoyed them.
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- Anonymous
- n@u
- 04 Dec 2025
Anonymous, 03 Dec 2025It's alright that you are just guessing that this app ... moreMost phones and tablets have a way to track whether you are being spied on or not. Easiest way to do that is to give certain permissions to the app, and then if it does something without user input, the phone literally sends you a warning about it. If you haven't received anything like it, that means the protections in place are doing their job. You can try to circumvent this by installing third party apps in hopes that one of them (highly unlikely) has spyware.
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- 04 Dec 2025
Anonymous, 03 Dec 2025It's alright that you are just guessing that this app ... moreI can give you at least 3 reasons without having to think that this is a malicious initiative in the making but like I said, it will go to waste because the policy here is not make political comments.
But here goes nothing...
1. Current government has proven record of tampering with voting and the way votes are counted.
2. A popular identification standard introduced 8-9 years ago requires all your information but cannot be used as a legal identification certificate without a secondary legacy accompanying identifier.
3. Current government has never held an open press conference since first coming in power back in 2014.
4. On record, the current government has been exposed by individual non-profit entities of bribing and controlling news and legacy media.
5. Constant use of religious beliefs to interfere voting decisions.
I can go on but any sentient person should get the picture now
It's one app today, it will be a suite of apps later.
And no, it wasn't china but N-Korea. Although both stellar examples.
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- optionalieie
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- 04 Dec 2025
Meanwhile in Indonesia
A couple of months back their ministry want to create like "Car Ownership License Book/Card" for each phone.
So in order IMEI to work, you need to register the IMEI with you're identity card, then you will have the "phone ownership/ID card", so each phone/IMEI could be tied up to specific person. And if you're phone got stolen, you can report it so the IMEI will be blocked.
Their first idea were you need to pay for tax like every year,
but after the public uproar, they might not taxing through the scheme at first