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The push comes as India seeks greater regulatory control over global tech companies. The initiative would require manufacturers to include the government's GOV.in app store and related apps like BHIM, DigiLocker, VoterID on smartphones sold from India.

Beyond pre-installation, they also requested that their apps be available for download outside the company's app stores from third-party sources without triggering "untrusted source" warnings.

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[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (20 children)

Wild how many people preach from their high horse every time a non-western country does this, as if there aren’t western backdoors built into all of these.

I’m against all government backdoors and spying efforts, but let’s not pretend they’re attempting anything the west has not already successfully done. There’s definitely an air of racism to the double standard.

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

What are the nature of the apps? If it's just things like digital IDs and government services, that's not bad since it helps tech illiterate people accessing them. Big room for fash fuckery though.

And as always, preinstalled apps should be deletable.

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub -1 points 1 week ago

I really don’t mind the concept of preinstalled applications as long as they can be easily removed.

[–] wavegor34@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 week ago

Good morning sirs

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