Re: Anyone know if this news is true ? Airtel spying ...

EU law makes cookies explicit so before storing cookie on one's device,
explicit permission is needed.

Banibrata, you use gmail so you signed up to Google and its other services;
most likely you have f-book, twitter, you-tube etc. accounts; you browse
and use on-line shopping; etc.etc. and all these collect data and maybe
know more about you then you realise as they aggregate /analyse not only
your data but that of you friends, family etc.

bit pipe carriers are the least of the problems.

As i mentioned before, the law of land where data is warehoused applies and
so India can do very little as almost no data is warehoused in India. This
is the continuing battle between EU and USA.

BR
Kirit
On Jun 9, 2015 7:05 PM, "Banibrata Dutta" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:26 PM, Mohit Garg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Most internet intermediaries (read Airtel, Google, FB etc.) want to get
>> access to user data and sell that in the name of personalized marketing. I
>> don't think there is any law which could help here... this is the reality
>> of the digital world today and it really cannot be changed.
>>
>
> This is perhaps one strong reason why we need strong, pan-country "bit
> pipe" internet-connectivity utilities, whose raison d'être is selling data
> connectivity, period. Of course, that doesn't suit the traditional telcos
> (big stomach) or the government (big nose).
>
> Why can't we take inspiration from the EU's 'Cookie Law' for instance, and
> make "improve user experience through personalization.. bla bla", consent
> based ? Of course the big-stomachs and hungry-mouths won't fall in love
> with it, but it'd be something very nice to have for the common man.
>
>
>> Would Airtel cookies get classified as First, Second or Third party
>> cookies?
>>
>
> Our IT Act, which bunches together anything that resembles some for of
> service available over the internet, including the access providers, into
> this extremely broad class called "internet intermediaries".  There should
> ideally have been a notion of "essential services" or "utilities" which
> separate the internet access providers, from all other service providers.
>
> Am I the only one who is dreaming on these lines ?
>
>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Banibrata Dutta <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Things moved quickly since...
>>>
>>> Update:
>>> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Airtels-mystery-code-raises-privacy-concerns/articleshow/47599548.cms
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Banibrata Dutta <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://www.storypick.com/airtel-sends-legal-notice-indian-coder/
>>>>
>>>> As per the above article:
>>>> Airtel (& Vodafone, but not clear if in India) are customers of
>>>> services provided by an Israel based company called Flash networks, who
>>>> apparently inject references to a Javascript that then tracks user
>>>> behaviour, and perhaps such information is shared back with the customers.
>>>>
>>>> An Indian hacker based in Bangalore found this and did an expose, but
>>>> has got a "Cease and Desist" letter from the Israel based company !! What
>>>> gives...
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> regards,
>>>> Banibrata
>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta
>>>> http://twitter.com/edgeliving
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> regards,
>>> Banibrata
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>>
>> --
>> -Mohit
>>
>
>
>
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