A major controversy has erupted after the Indian government quietly instructed smartphone makers, including Apple, Samsung ...

Sanchar Saathi promises fraud protection and lost-phone recovery, but mandatory installation has sparked a privacy backlash.

Apple is not planning to comply with an order from the Indian government directing phone manufacturers to preload a ...

Apple reportedly plans to defy an Indian government order to pre-load a mandatory, undeletable tracking app on iPhones, citing severe privacy and security risks.

Apple and Samsung will engage with the government regarding the Sanchar Saathi app pre-installation directive. The directive ...

Since its release, the app has helped recover over 700,000 lost phones and locked down more than 3.7 million stolen or lost ...

Apple doesn’t plan to comply with a mandate to preload its smartphones with a state-owned cyber safety app and will convey ...

India has issued a mandate to all smartphone manufacturers and importers requiring them to install a state-owned cyber ...

According to three anonymous sources cited by Reuters, Apple “does not plan” to preload iPhones with the Sanchar Saathi app, ...

Some secondary apps, while not being visible on the home screen, may continue to run in the background.Some experts point out that the Sanchar Saathi app, like most other apps, seeks access to call ...

The government said the rules were needed to prevent theft and other crime. Its opponents and privacy activists regard the ...

Ah, December. The month where tech companies boast about their end-of-year recaps, and consumers realize they listened to far ...