@vasundhar @CreativeWolf Places to lodge a grievance: ▶ National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal https://t.co/D1v9SkXR3m ▶Local police station. Police prioritize complaints and unless they involve large sums of money it won't go far. ▶ Telco's complaint center. Find them here:

AdTech needs closer scrutiny, governance, and regulatory requirements to be met. It's being normalized that being cunning, deceptive, manipulative as being intelligent and brings bad name to advertising and marketing. That aside, everything needn't be connected to the Internet.

@jawharsircar @sanjayuvacha Not sure where you got this from https://t.co/M00D7kcPEC Here's the original from PTI without any such rounded and pointed mistakes. Let's not fight the cause using misinformation.

Gibberish is AI hallucinated.

This location data is calculated with the help of an A-GPS server. If the server does the calculation, it's called Mobile Station Assisted, and otherwise, when done on the device, it's called Mobile Station Based. Who foots the bill for the A-GPS server is anybody's guess.

4. A-GPS or Assisted GPS is not better GPS. It's a shoe-in for when your device can't find 4 satellites to talk to. For example, just after turning on location, when your phone is still looking for satellites, A-GPS can fetch locataion from WiFi, nearby devices, cell-site etc.

Always on location tracking is a huge risk. 1. Children use smartphones (GDPR Recital 38 is a nod in this direction). 2. GPS can be jammed. 3. Risks handing over so much data to the US (who own and operate GPS) that the NSA might want a word.

Despite the fact that these issues remain unaddressed, SEBI mandated SIM binding for the top 10 qualified stock brokers earlier this year. This article unironically claims: "Investors will have more control over their accounts[...]"

Can security benefits alone justify the increased friction and cost? For example, banking apps are updated fairly frequently, and often, they discontinue support for older OS. This puts a cost on the user who now has to: * purchase a new device * unlink old, relink new device

In the past few years, banks have pushed customers to adopt their mobile solutions aggressively. Increasingly, even transactions done via netbanking are being linked to device based identity authentication making the provider bound device and SIM a must-have.

SIM binding, contrary to its name, is not just about SIM. In reality, it is based on a triad: a device, a number, and an user account. It follows: * users can link only one device * using a new device requires unlinking old and registering new https://t.co/yME1b1Za9s

A brief history of SIM binding in India. SBI introduced SIM binding as a security feature for its YONO apps in August 2021. A Moneylife article described the rationale as: "one mobile device - one user - one registered mobile number".

⚠️ Scam has been going for 3+ years ⚠️ The QR code links to a dubious scanner app Scanning the QR code is unlikely to compromise your phone. The scam works when victims call up and start paying money demanded by the scammers under the ruse of tax, processing fee etc.

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Click farming.

@Banbreach Ideally, it shouldn't have to be one. With an autocratic government, choking personal rights with utter disregard to due process, lacking keenness to learn, mentality to not admit the unknown, attempting to institutionalize infantilization, we are left with no choice. *SIGH*

We can guess at the broad range harms this directive foretells though. It empowers MNOs under the guise of leveling the playing field, much of which telcos have ceded to OTT players, to be the sole arbiter of who gets to communicate, no matter who the actual service provider is.