[newscracker]

Not much for encrypted data, but they can still get metadata out of it (which site you visited, how much traffic was exchanged relative to other sites you visited, what times of the day you visited, which days of the week you visited, usage patterns, etc.). For example, if you have a pattern of visiting say, an Amazon store, that information could be useful to have rivals of Amazon to target you with ads or special offers, even if they cannot find what exactly you did on Amazon.

The voice calls are also on LTE (VoLTE), and a similar DPI scheme could be used to get a lot out of that by recording and inspecting content and metadata. Legality aside, if they're intent on mining data, there are millions of people who wouldn't even know what http vs. https means or to use end-to-end encrypted apps for calls, etc. (or probably not care as much). I'm not implying that nobody will care, because there may be another prominent movement (savetheinternet) like the one that helped block Facebook's Free Basics initiative through campaigns and well crafted letters to the authorities.

[1024core]

> Not much for encrypted data, but they can still get metadata out of it (which site you visited, how much traffic was exchanged relative to other sites you visited, what times of the day you visited, which days of the week you visited, usage patterns, etc.). For

Just use a VPN?

[webtechgal]

Well, yes, but unfortunately, of the billion+ people here in India, I doubt if a significant percentage has even heard of a VPN, leave alone the matter of knowing what it does or knowing how to go about getting and setting one up.

[helthanatos]

Or about paying for one