Cybersecurity's Surveillance Trap
Description
India has had a chaotic two-week telecom cybersecurity sprint with DoT's now-retracted Sanchar Saathi app mandate, SIM binding rules forcing platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram to verify active SIMs, and telcos pushing for always-on phone geolocation tracking. In this episode of All Things Policy, Anwesha Sen and Anushka Saxena discuss regulatory overreach of such moves, privacy implications, and broader impacts on the market. But most importantly, they delve into whether such regulations would be able to solve cyber fraud, or are there better solutions to be considered.
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