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A compulsory mandated app installed on every Indian citizen's new phone (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why do they even need it to be that way?

so that they can surveil you

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That part, I already understand.
But you needed to have some sort of excuse for such things back when smartphones were new.

I think the compartmentalisation concepts were there from the feature-phone era.