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Paytm, India's Largest Digital Wallet App, Accused Of Handing Over User Data To The Government (buzzfeed.com)
Paytm, the largest mobile wallet app in India, has been accused of sharing with the Indian government the personal data of users in a geopolitically sensitive region. From a report: On Friday, the news agency released a video where a reporter went undercover and recorded Paytm's vice president, Ajay Shekhar Sharma, saying how the company had handed over personal data of users in the state of Jammu and Kashmir after Sharma personally received a call from the prime minister's office following incidents of stone-pelting by Kashmiri Muslims against India's armed forces, something that happens frequently in the region. "They told us to give them data, saying maybe some of the stone-pelters are Paytm users," Sharma says in the video. He also talks about his close ties to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a right-wing Hindu nationalist organization known for being the ideological front of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
Facebook and Twitter would never do such a thing, no matter how nicely the NSA asked. LOL
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So they give the info willingly. Anything and everything can be bought in India.
If stone-peltars are Paytm user they must give data. Maybe some of stone-peltars are Paytm user and this is bad for them. You cannot Paytm. If stone-peltar has data in Microsoft Window, also we take data. Windows computer is designed to uploading data for police.
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IN JAIL PUERTO RICO
This is why cryptocurrencies will have a market
Brahmins have short dicks!!
IN FEDERAL JAIL PRISONS
Then went off to take a shit in the street.
Go Sanjeet !!!
That's pretty much the entire reason governments want to go to a cashless system; tracking (and taxation). I'd be more shocked if, in a cashless society, the government did NOT hoover-up user data regardless of any laws or constitutional prohubitions. That kind of data is simply too valuable.
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Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
The Kashmiris are terrorists not just stone throwers and the government asked for the info. And not every BJP member is an RSS member. This sounds like something Indian left is pushing
personally received a call from the prime minister's office
Weak governments play influence games instead of following laws that don't exist yet due to the weakness. If this situation is not addressed, corruption increases, rule of law suffers and the citizens legal rights will be under threat even more.
Ah India ... the largest true Democracy that blocks websites, prohibits money transfers and where you have to payoff a govt official to do their job.
It blows my mind that people are stupid and going cashless. And governments are even forcing it on people. But this is a great example of why we need to see crypto currency technology advance. We have privacy friendly crypto currencies today- but we are still waiting on the technologies (plug-ins, merchant apps, etc) to accept privacy friendly crypto currencies outside of private person-to-person transactions.
1-Government sees lots of data that "might" make things easier to control the poor huddled masses. 2-Government can get that data without anyone knowing. 3-Government gets that data (buy, laws, coersion) and gives it to everyone that wants it. Telling government to NOT hoover up social media data or electronic payment data is like telling the fire department to not use fire hydrants.