Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The government of India launched a tracking app to be "preinstalled on all mobile handsets manufactured or imported for use in India," prompting privacy concerns throughout the country.
The app is called Sanchar Saathi and was designed to help prevent theft and phone smuggling, as well as call center fraud.
"Sanchar Saathi is a snooping app," Priyanka Gandhi, the Congress Party's general secretary, posted on X. "There's a very fine line between reporting fraud and seeing what every citizen of India is doing on their phone."
Under the app's privacy policy, it can make and manage phone calls, send messages, access call and message logs, photos and files, and the phone's camera, the BBC reported.
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