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The Central Government has abolished the requirement of pre-installing the Sanchar Sathi app in the phone. The government has said that its objective was simply to provide an easy way of cyber security to the people. The government has made it clear that there is no feature in the app that affects people’s privacy.
New Delhi. The government has said that in order to make cyber security accessible to the common people, it had decided to pre-install Sanchar Saathi app in smartphones, but now this rule has been withdrawn. The government has made it clear that this app is completely safe and its purpose is only to protect people from cyber criminals.
According to the government, the Sanchar Saathi app provides an easy way for people to report cyber fraud and suspicious activities through “Jan Bhagidari”. There is no such feature in the app which affects the privacy of the user. If people want, they can remove this app from their phone anytime.
So far, more than 1.4 crore people have downloaded this app and are sharing information about about 2,000 cyber fraud related cases every day. The government says that pre-installation arrangements were made to reach the app to less aware citizens, so that more people can use it easily.
In the last 24 hours alone, 6 lakh new users have registered to download the app, which is 10 times more than the daily average. The government is considering this as proof that citizens are trusting this app for their digital security.
Seeing the increasing popularity of Sanchar Saathi, the government has now decided to remove the obligation of mobile companies to compulsorily pre-install it.
