{"id":981221,"date":"2025-12-20T10:43:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981221"},"modified":"2025-12-20T10:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:13:36","slug":"sanchar-saathi-bad-comms-and-intent-trumped-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/20\/sanchar-saathi-bad-comms-and-intent-trumped-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanchar Saathi: Bad comms and intent trumped utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Now that the sound and fury around the Sanchar Saathi app has died, it\u2019s time to look at the debris. What happened? What was it about? There\u2019s a history to this. Every technology controversy in India follows a predictable arc. A new system appears. A permission screen is spotted. The word \u201cprivacy\u201d is invoked. Social media lights up. Television panels shout. And then, silence.<\/p>\n<p>When Sanchar Saathi hit the headlines, curiosity compelled me to download the app. I used it and read what it asked for. I also spoke to people who build privacy-first digital systems for a living. What emerged from these conversations was an unfashionable narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Now that the sound and fury around the Sanchar Saathi app has died, it\u2019s time to look at the debris. What happened? What was it about? There\u2019s a history to this. Every technology controversy in India follows a predictable arc. A new system appears. A permission screen is spotted. The word \u201cprivacy\u201d is invoked. Social media lights up. Television panels shout. And then, silence. When Sanchar Saathi hit the headlines, curiosity compelled me to download the app. I used it and read what it asked for. I also spoke to people who build privacy-first digital systems for a living. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-telecom-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981221","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}