- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
The Indian telecommunications authority, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has instructed eight messenger services to implement a permanent binding to inserted SIM cards. Affected are WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Snapchat, ShareChat, as well as the Indian services Arattai, JioChat, and Josh. According to the directive, the companies must ensure within 90 days that their services can only be used with a physically inserted SIM card.
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Do you want new messenger services? Because this is how you get new messenger services.
“to protect against foreign cybercrime”
Mate your country is famous for allowing cybercrime in your borders
Gotta protect the domestic cybercrime industry, they wouldn’t want that work going to some other country
As someone who only uses a phone without a SIM card this would suck for me.
Are many new phones being made with Sim slots? I assumed physical cards were fading.
@HeyJoe @schizoidman it’s time to migrate the planet to #signal and …
Signal was also part of this as well
Signal seems unlikely to comply. It will be interesting to see how they respond. A way to register without a phone number would be ideal.
I have an Indian colleague who told me he was threatened with arrest after a traffic stop for having element and conversations installed on his phone as the cop told him those are used by terrorists and he should just use WhatsApp
He thought terrorists also use email and drink water, but decided not to tell the cop that.
What do they achieve from this?
Whenever you don’t know, the answer is money.
Control of dissent, rather.
