The Messaging or Sharing or
Social Applications player should be brought under privacy and private act of
India. Post Whatsapp Court saga of sharing the information with FB and
subsequent PIL in Delhi high court; it's the right time that Applications
providers should be brought under the regulatory ambit.
None of the applications
providers should be allowed to fetch any personal information from user device.
The regulators or honorable court must direct that none of mentioned app
segment will be allowed to read and fetch the contact lit, SMS's and must
declare that they are not capturing the user usage behaviour other than their
own applications.
Many of the mentioned segment
based application providers store all the use information and also track their
usage pattern. They take consent through terms and condition which none of the
user read. There should be a mechanism that once user start using the
application for the first time then there should be clear pop with detailed
explanation about the need of that access.
Regulators should also ensure
that none of the message should be kept once user uninstall the applications.
Applications provider should be forced to host the database of Indian users in
India instead of taking it outside India.
In my point of view where users
are using Smartphone for financial transactions, these measures are off utmost
importance
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