{"id":978392,"date":"2025-12-04T09:18:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978392"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:35:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:05:45","slug":"sanchar-saathi-app-row-check-which-countries-mandate-pre-installation-of-government-apps-on-new-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/04\/sanchar-saathi-app-row-check-which-countries-mandate-pre-installation-of-government-apps-on-new-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanchar Saathi app row: Check which countries mandate pre-installation of government apps on new phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent debacle on the Sanchar Saathi app has raised questions about mass user privacy as well as state-backed surveillance. The smartphone, which emerged as a symbol of personal freedom and global connectivity, is swiftly becoming a battleground for digital sovereignty and state control. While most governments around the world rely on traditional legal requests to access device data of an individual, a handful of nations have moved to a more aggressive tactic \u2013 mandating the pre-installation of state-backed software directly onto mobile devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent debacle on the Sanchar Saathi app has raised questions about mass user privacy as well as state-backed surveillance. The smartphone, which emerged as a symbol of personal freedom and global connectivity, is swiftly becoming a battleground for digital sovereignty and state control. While most governments around the world rely on traditional legal requests to access device data of an individual, a handful of nations have moved to a more aggressive tactic \u2013 mandating the pre-installation of state-backed software directly onto mobile devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}