India’s telecom ministry has issued a directive that requires every new smartphone sold in the country to come preloaded with the government’s cyber safety application Sanchar Saathi.
Reuters reported that the order makes Sanchar Saathi a mandatory preinstalled app on all smartphones and states that users will not be allowed to delete it.
According to the report, the directive dated November 28 instructs phone makers including Apple, Samsung, Vivo, Oppo and Xiaomi to complete the implementation within 90 days. For phones already in the…

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