Ask HN: Which developing nations have interesting tech stories at the moment?

Re:Ask HN: Which developing nations have interesting tech st... by throwaway423447 on Friday May 12, 2017 @12:37PM (#14325454)

It should be noted that this was achieved by giving 6 months of 4G data (1GB/day at > 6Mbps) + free telephony, for a mere $6.

Things should normalize once the freebies stop; Jio however will have a massive collection of Indians Biometric identities (and much else skimmed off of "Big Brother" Aadhar) and their browsing habits, which we currently have no idea how they'll exploit. Worse, we have no regulation over Aadhar's data-sharing, nor over the privacy of citizens.

India's state telephony company now injects ads into non-HTTPS sites, and tracks users using the services of a private company. Considering Ambani's complete lack of basic ethics, one can be sure that they'll be much more clever with it than the generic dolts at BSNL.

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Re:Ask HN: Which developing nations have interesting tech st... by anilgulecha on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @04:39AM (#14356609)

> Jio however will have a massive collection of Indians Biometric identities

Citation or shut up. I'm no fan of Aadhar but even a cursory look into it's authentication shows that it does not share this information with services. It only acts as a o-auth like service.

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Re:Ask HN: Which developing nations have interesting tech st... by throwaway68655 on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:51AM (#14365748)

Are you stupid ? Because it strikes me that you are phenomenally so.

While Aadhar does not share biometric features, by being an authentication oracle, it makes it trivial for any massive organization like Jio to build their own second-party 'verified by Aadhar' databases which have even fewer legislative regulations (if that were at all possible).

So no, "we" will not "shut up".

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