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A census of the North-East community in Delhi by the police seeks personal details in the name of security, sparking profiling and privacy concerns.

The Department of Telecommunications’ directive that every smartphone come pre-installed with the app follows a familiar pattern of ‘optional’ tools that turn mandatory in practice.
The Biren Singh government has abysmally failed; that it remains in power, but without authority over the state, is unjustifiable in any functioning democracy.
Governments have cocked a snook at WhatsApp’s encryption policy for years. The UK had to back down. India is taking the opposite approach.