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
Weird way to say “backdoor.”
At some point, it will be easier to just not have a phone.
Sell your non I treated with phone to an Indian. You’ll both be happier.
“Cannot be deleted”
sure. Based on ALL the youtube vids from India of unlocking phones or bypassing FRPs, etc I imagine it won’t be long before you start seeing videos from India on how to easily bypass this.
I mean some of those FRP videos are wild with the steps they go through to unlock an Android phone.
And here I was considering petitioning for an open source UPI app.
Turns out, the Government is just another company now.Apple’s iOS powered an estimated 4.5% of 735 million smartphones in India by mid-2025, with the rest using Android, Counterpoint Research says.
will be interesting to see if Apple tells them to pound sand.
Like they did in China?
app that cannot be deleted
Someone never heard of ADB…
Android Debug Bridge? Please tell me I got it right!
I wonder if this would make Apple pull out of India. It’d be awkward, with all the manufacturing they moved there.
I feel like they’d be happy installing yet another spying app, if that means getting to keep millions of data providers.
