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India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app (www.reuters.com)
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India's telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed

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[-] plz1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I wonder if this would make Apple pull out of India. It'd be awkward, with all the manufacturing they moved there.

[-] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Honestly that would be a good thing

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

I feel like they'd be happy installing yet another spying app, if that means getting to keep millions of data providers.

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