Self serving Indian telecos want chat interception(tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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Self serving Indian telecos want chat interception
https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/telcos-paytm-for-lawful-interception-of-messages-on-ott-services/67459812
Jio telecom, owned by India's richest person with close affiliations to current ruling party & prime minister has a chat app of their own with questionable security [1]
Paytm, India's leading wallet is facing immense competition from WhatsApp's integrated payment features & uses the opportunity to showcase encrypted platforms as being against national security. Paytm ran full front page news ads with Narendra Modi in it supporting the I'll conceived demonetisation when poor people of India were literally dying because of it.
Other chat apps mentioned in the article are just trying to advertise their lack of encryption as a policy for national security.
[0]: http://main.trai.gov.in/consultation-paper-regulatory-framew...
[1]: https://m.economictimes.com/tech/software/reliance-jio-chat-...