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India reportedly wants to build its own WhatsApp for government communications

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Re: India reportedly wants to build its own WhatsApp for government communications

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What do they have to hide? Internal communication is usually great source for historians and posterity. Not to mention parliamentary investigative bodies.

> What do they have to hide? This is the kind of dangerous statement that has done more damage to privacy and security conversation than anything else. Please stop.

> Please stop.

Stop expecting transparent and accountable politics? Yeh, sure. It's India.

Re: India reportedly wants to build its own WhatsApp for government communications

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The Indian Government is extremely inept at assessing at technological needs. Aadhar is a good example of what came out of the Indian Government (technically Nilekani & Co.).

The pathetic Indian Government websites would show you what they are capable of when designing a product that is supposed to work for Millions/Billions of people. They are just going to line up TCS or Wipro's pockets because that's the cheapest and also the crappiest.

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