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Reliance’s Ambani Lays Out Plan for Low-Cost Mobile Data in India

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Re: Reliance’s Ambani Lays Out Plan for Low-Cost Mobile Data in India

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0xmohit wrote: post #4
sudhirj wrote: post #2

Non paywalled article by NDTV http://gadgets.ndtv.com/telecom/news/reliance-jio-plans-reve...

Doesn't show anything if you're using an ad-blocker. Effectively paywalled.

Yes, but you can use noscript [1] and it works fine then.

[1] https://noscript.net/

Re: Reliance’s Ambani Lays Out Plan for Low-Cost Mobile Data in India

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Post by 0xmohit »

ap46 wrote: post #3

Kinda like Valentine from Kingsman. I'm a bit apprehensive of their executive saying deep packet inspectionn will be the actual gold mine [ http://qz.com/771690/reliance-jio-bombshell-the-good-the-bad... ]

Quoting:

  Privacy: An unnamed Jio executive mentioned “deep packet
  inspection” to Reuters, saying: “It’s called deep packet
  inspection, and what you can do with the analytics of that is
  mind-boggling,” he said, referring to a practice that digs into
  “packets” of data created by computers for efficiency, mining
  them for information. If this is happening and Jio is accessing
  data packets to develop patterns of user data consumption, this
  is a major privacy violation. The company deserves to be taken
  to court for this, as much as the India needs a privacy law.
This essentially implies that they would earn more revenues by analyzing one's browsing behavior, performing analytics and selling the data. Awesome.

Welcome to India!

Re: Reliance’s Ambani Lays Out Plan for Low-Cost Mobile Data in India

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Post by eklavya »

ap46 wrote: post #3

Kinda like Valentine from Kingsman. I'm a bit apprehensive of their executive saying deep packet inspectionn will be the actual gold mine [ http://qz.com/771690/reliance-jio-bombshell-the-good-the-bad... ]

I am reasonably sure that all other telecoms are doing this already. Attitude towards privacy of an average Indian leans towards "don't care". We seem to think privacy in numbers or something.

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Post by abverma »

I've been using the network (Jio) for about a month now. The service is great, but the paranoid in me is genuinely worried about Jio ending up having a Verizon-NSA like partnership with the Indian Govt. (they probably already have).

No one will dare question it because we have idiots for politicians and we are nowhere close to having a privacy law for our citizens.

Is VPN, Whonix, Tor (in essence compartmentalization) a good combination to escape their monitoring capabilities?

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