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Re:India has the highest data usage per smartphone by justanobody on Friday June 21, 2019 @12:20PM (#20243885)
>> constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights to privacy

Considering nearly everyone (who isn't an ARPU "deadbeat") is on WhatsApp I would think the ruling doesn't matter one way or another because you don't have much privacy left anyway.

Plus, if the govt wants the scoop on anyone's private life, they will just ask Facebook to hand it over or else.... (ban WhatsApp, ban Instagram, block approval for cryptocurrency projects, harden data storage rules and whatever else a government can do to threaten a corporation).

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Re:India has the highest data usage per smartphone by sandGorgon on Friday June 21, 2019 @12:23PM (#20243915)
no.

in india, the right to privacy was upheld by the constitutional bench of the supreme court to be a fundamental human right.

This triggered a multi-billion dollar reversal of the Aadhaar biometric social-security id project.

the govt cannot do this without due judicial process even if it tries to create a law. we have stronger privacy protections than the US.

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Re:India has the highest data usage per smartphone by selimthegrim on Friday June 21, 2019 @10:42PM (#20247720)
Is this true in states where AFSPA applies?
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