00:00Now moving on to another controversy of today.
00:03Now the center has issued a directive mandating that the Sanchar Sathi app
00:09should be pre-installed on all phones manufactured or imported for use in India.
00:15The aim is to help people verify genuine devices and prevent misuse of telecom services.
00:22The order requires the app to be clearly visible and easy to use during the initial setup
00:27and of any new handset it should be there.
00:32Manufacturers are not allowed to hide, disable or restrict any of its features.
00:37Companies have 90 days to comply with the order and 120 days to file a compliance report.
00:43For devices already in stores, they are expected to add the app through software updates.
00:50Though Reuters citing sources in Apple said that Apple will not bow to the diktat
00:56and will not pre-load its phones with the app.
00:59Apple is said to be planning to convey its concerns directly to New Delhi.
01:04It is important to note that as per Communications Minister Jyotir Aditya Sindhya,
01:10the app can be uninstalled by the user if they want.
01:14He further clarified that this app is meant for cyber security only
01:17and it has no role in snooping or spying.
01:21Through Sanchar Sarti portal and app, users can check whether a mobile handset is genuine
01:27using its IMEI number.
01:30They can report suspected fraud calls or messages.
01:33They can report lost or stolen mobile phones.
01:37They can also see all mobile connections issued in their name.
01:41They can access trusted contact details for banks and financial institutions.
01:45It is not mandatory if you don't want to register in order to do this app,
01:54you don't want to register in order to do this app.
01:56Don't register in order to stay dormant.
01:58If you want to delete it, you can delete it.
02:00But what happens?
02:01But every person doesn't know in the country that I am protecting for frauds,
02:06I am protecting for frauds, I am protecting for frauds.
02:10A political storm had erupted over the Sanchar Sarti app, with the opposition sharply criticising
02:34the centre, calling the directive beyond unconstitutional.
02:39Congress leaders argued that a preloaded government app that could not be uninstalled,
02:43according to them, amounted to a dystopian tool for monitoring citizens and demanded its
02:49immediate rollback, citing privacy concerns.
02:53Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Wadra described the app as a snooping mechanism, insisting that
02:58citizens must retain the right to private communication without government intrusion or oversight.
03:05She suggested that such measures were pushing the country towards dictatorship while acknowledging
03:12the need for cyber security systems, but emphasising that they should not be used to access every
03:18citizen's phone.
03:19In response to the controversy, the government clarified that the app could be uninstalled.
03:24Communications Minister Jyotir Aditya Sindhya reportedly assured users that there was no
03:31compulsion to keep the app, seeking to address the massive rout that had erupted over privacy
03:37fears.
03:37The government is saying it's for national security.
03:44And the fraud will be easy to report.
03:46The government is for national security.
03:48But that's a very fine line, no?
03:49It's a very fine line between fraud is easy to report and we can see everything that every
03:54citizen of India is doing on their phone.
03:57So that's not how it should work.
04:00There should be an effective system to report fraud and we've discussed this at great lengths
04:06on cyber security and this and that and definitely there's a need for cyber security.
04:11But that doesn't mean that it gives you an excuse to go into every citizen's telephone.
04:15I don't think anybody, any citizen would be happy.
04:17In the name of helping the people's consumer, BJP government is trying to attack on privacy of
04:25the common people.
04:26We had an experience of Pegasus here in India.
04:30So the government is trying to put a surveillance on entire people of this country through this app.
04:37They had used Pegasus.
04:39They had political leaders and journalists and all judges even their own party men has been
04:45and they were doing this with Pegasus.
04:47Now they are going to do it with an app now.
04:50They are going to do with the app which is going to be
04:52only way is that every Indian is going to be snooped into it and in a mass scale they are
04:59going to do it which is unacceptable and we should all protest and because these kind
05:04of apps, these kind of activities by the government is unacceptable.
05:07Sanchar Sathi, the government is saying that they are going to take this app
05:12and take this app.
05:13It was like digital arrests.
05:15It was necessary.
05:16It was necessary.
05:17It was necessary.
05:18You are saying that it is a big brother attitude.
05:21It is always trying to keep an eye on the common people of this country.
05:25Why are you trying to keep an eye on it?
05:27If you have a Singapore model on it, every person will hold a eye on the ground.
05:33Where are you moving through?
05:35Where are you going to go?
05:36Everyone knows it in one minute.
05:38Keep it.
05:40It is BECAUSE of the technology.
05:42It is why?
05:43It is a technology.
05:44Why do you want to make the country?
05:46Why does that look like a vest?
05:47Why does it look like a vest?
05:48Why does it look like a vest?
05:49Why does it look like a vest?
05:50Why does it look like a vest?
05:52What do you want to do it?
05:53foreign
06:23We want to create a controlled government in this life.
06:30We want to do this in this life.
06:31This is the government's work.
06:32Hindustan is a free India.
06:33We want to create a free government.
06:34We are joined with Priyanka Chaturvedi.
06:37Priyanka Ji, you always have the privacy of the government.
06:40The government says that this is not a bad thing.
06:45We have not said that this is not a bad thing.
06:48We are not saying that this is not a bad thing.
06:55The government says that we are talking about Baito.
06:58Baito had a notification in the cyber security.
07:00We have seen a lot in the country.
07:02There is no law where you can be taken from the national security.
07:06In national security, journalists have been under the law.
07:11Opposition leaders have been under the law.
07:15Now, the notification of the disciples is very clear that manufacturers have a mandate that they will put in the app where the IMEI number is generated.
07:25Now, it would have become a feature of a phone. It would be part of the handset which is being used by the citizens.
07:32Now, we are giving clarification, because the country is understanding which way they are in our homes and phones.
07:51Do you feel like a back-channel can do any other notifications?
07:56Now, the notification is going to be done.
08:03As far as I know, India is a democratic country.
08:06India has been enshrined in its constitution that the right to privacy is a citizen's authority.
08:12And if it is a citizen's authority, then I will take it.
08:16The opposition is not the issue.
08:20In the winter session, there is a business that has been made.
08:23There is a lot of pressure.
08:25There are many pressure that the opposition has taken us.
08:28We will be thinking about what we should do.
08:31The pressure that the parliament has taken us,
08:35there is no pressure to make it.
08:38There is no pressure to make it.
08:40It is important in our place.
08:42Why is it your government do you do?
08:56It doesn't allow government to do it.
08:59Another and the opposition will not read your messages.
09:01The government also will not answer your messages.
09:05The government cannot read your messages.
09:08read your messages. Sanchar saathi aapke call nahi sunsakti hai. Sanchar saathi cannot listen
09:17to your calls, either the calls that you receive or the calls that you make. Sanchar saathi
09:23aapke niji data tak, personal data tak nahi pahunch sakti hai. Sanchar saathi cannot reach
09:31your personal data, cannot breach your personal data. Message nahi sunsakti, call nahi sunsakti,
09:37personal data breach nahi kar sakti hai. To kiya kama hai Sanchar saathi ka? Yeh
09:42sab kar nahi sakti hai, toh woh kya karegi? Uska kama security provide karne ka hai.
09:49Jou users hai, unko woh security provide karegi. Fraud ko rokne ka hai.
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