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India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphone (www.bbc.com)
submitted 1 month ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For now.

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 17 points 1 month ago

They'll wait a month or so and try it again, quieter this time.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

I’m guessing all the western companies that have outsourced so much of their IT and dev to India are very much against this monitoring app? Which is why Modi is pulling back?

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Get rid of Modi and his BJP thugs from their positions.

[–] PrinceOfSloth@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

they control the entire media and manipulated voter lists. Its basically Putin's Russia now.