Major telecom mines user data secretly
Hyderabad: For the past few years, cybersecurity activists in the country have been uncomfortable with the lack of discussion about data mining and monetisation by large tech firms. For instance, a Hyderabad-based group, affiliated to the Free Software Movement of India, recently released a brow-ser plug-in for Mozilla Firefox which prevents a telecom giant’s internet services from tracking user data. Mr Ranjith Raj Vasam, one of the developers who worked on the plug-in, said that Firefox, due to its open-source and not-for-profit pedigree, is more conducive to data security. Mr Kiran Chandra, founder general secretary of FSMI, said the private data of Indian users were being ‘plundered’ by tech companies. Mr Ranjith Raj, and cybersecurity activists in general, hope that more and more people will start using open-source alternatives to products developed by large tech companies.
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