No amount of online tracking will improve India's security agencies effectiveness(take CBI for example) without fundamental improvements.
The Encryption Debate Between WhatsApp And The Indian Government
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This is a very dangerous attitude. Mass surveillance is a double edged sword, it can be used to capture criminals but in the wrong hands (authoritarian govts, autocrats), it can also be used to spy on and harass innocent citizens (like how China is doing). Therefore, how this surveillance is used must be tightly monitored, public must be made aware of it and mechanisms must be put into place to ensure accountability in case of wrongful use. Giving the govt. free reign in this case is a disaster for everyone, not just the criminals and terrorists who they claim to protect us from.
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bssunilreddy
Chosen of the Omnissiah
Facebook Adds Catalogs to WhatsApp - Another Feature to Milk the App's 1.5 Billion Users
Read the article. Didn't get exactly how it will work though.
So will we the consumers will get promotional messages through Whatsapp (from business users using WhatsApp business) and we can directly purchase things from within whatsapp?
If yes, then the business whatsapp users would need to have our whatsapp numbers and we could block them if we want to? Does this come under DND protection? So many questions.
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bssunilreddy
Chosen of the Omnissiah
It's just like this
For the sake of National security some liberties can be forgotten like citizens privacy because we cannot guarantee safety on the demographic basis.
So some liberties can be forgotten.
This is my opinion.
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TheSloth
The Slowest One
The problem is, as much as the govt is corrupted right now in many third world countries, not a single person aware of right to privacy would compromise their right with their govt. As soon as this gets implemented, people's data will be handed out to third party for analysis so that powerful people know how to manipulate the population and keep their power for long time. Obviously this might also be used to find out how many people wants to change the current govt and keep close eye on them to monitor all the activities and eventually nab them for crimes they didn't even commit. These things are already happening in China and other parts of the world. I posted a link here from Reddit about this same topic, I am unable to find right now.
You sound like a dictatorship cheerleader.
You would score very high in Chinese communist party opinion because they also think just like you & believe that every chinese citizen should be under some form of monitoring.National security is indeed important but citizens privacy can not be completely sacrificed for it because that would mean the govt is no longer democratic in nature. Let the govt monitor communication of suspected anti-nationals but only after getting court approval & with enough evidence(& not like the one which would be rejected by high courts/supreme court as not enough) & I have no issue but I don't support govt monitoring people because they said something bad/funny about major political leaders/ministers & some police officer "thinks this is anti-national".
Security Security Security - Govt. monitoring may get you rid of any possible terrorist attack but what if some where down the line it becomes one - now think of the greatest North Korean Leader
