[yalogin]

On the spectrum of privacy india is on the furthest end of it. No one cares about privacy and actively give their data over to everyone. For example every vendor asks for your phone number and people don’t question it at all.

As great as the privacy law sounds I have a suspicion that it will just be used by police and the government to abuse authority and silence critics like they do with people tweeting anything the government doesn’t like. Hope I am wrong

[cuteboy19]

Wasn't this always the case? There were once huge "phone-books" containing all phone numbers in an area mapped to people's names. This is not much different from giving out emails

[iamgopal]

And hence people who care about privacy have two numbers.