India's New Phone Security Measures: Privacy vs. Cybercrime
Update: 2025-12-02
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Indias government is bolstering its fight against phone theft and online fraud by expanding its Sanchar Saathi system. This initiative mandates companies dealing in used phones to verify devices through a central database and requires smartphone makers to preinstall the Sanchar Saathi app on new phones and push it to existing ones. The app has already helped recover over seven hundred thousand phones, but privacy concerns persist as critics argue the government has unprecedented visibility into personal devices. The government is also piloting a new system to create a nationwide record of all smartphones in circulation, raising further privacy concerns.
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