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Jan 6, 2021 • 10 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Today WhatsApp wished it's users good morning. Accept the updated terms and conditions or say goodbye. (Thread 1/n) It is effective from Feb 8, 2021. Image
There are seperate hyperlinks for terms and privacy policies. Both these hyperlinks lead to multiple pages of contracts written in a very jargonised language. A few things I noted : google.com/amp/s/tech.hin…
The information 'we' provide to #WhatsApp include our messages. Also WhatsApp claims that it is end to end encrypted BUT, ImageImage
BUT if your friend / enemy / boyfriend / family or anyone is offline and your message sent to him cannot be delivered #immediately, it will be saved on #WhatsApp servers for 30 days. Image
Also: When you forward media msg in #WhatsApp that media is stored temporarily in encrypted form on it's servers to aid in more efficient delivery of additional forwards. Tada! (Consider a thousand times before sending any images; news anchors can officially read your chats.) Image
#WhatsApp can also read your contacts list. And incase someone who doesn't use WhatsApp is on that list, Whatsapp will manage the contact information "in a way that ensures those contacts cannot be identified by it." Image
WhatsApp also collect your device's hardware model, operating system information, battery level, signal strength, app version, browser information, mobile network, connection information, including phone number, mobile operator details. Remember Jio and Facebook deal? Image
Even if you don't give #WhatsApp permission to use your location, they use IP addresses and other information like phone number area codes to estimate your general location. (Tip : People in love, planning to elope, do that once you delete your WhatsApp.) Image
#WhatsApp can share your information with third party apps but on terms and conditions decided by it. I just wish users had a say? Image
#WhatsApp is not the only service you can use. There is signal, telegram and other channels which are less jargonised when it comes to terms and conditions.
Let us at least have a choice. No good ever came from monopoly.
google.com/amp/s/time.com…

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Mar 17
As Elections are here and Mr Modi is seeking a 3rd term, media and endless ads on TV are showing how PM single-handedly "developed" the nation. So here is a story:

In December, I found myself in Mr Modi's adopted villages in Varanasi. What I saw there, blew my mind.

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When Mr Modi assumed office 10 years back, he made all parliamentarians adopt villages in their own constituencies to make them "model villages." Modi himself adopted 8 villages in Varanasi.

Now I will tell you what happened to those villages.

m.thewire.in/article/rights…
Let's start with Jayapur, one of the 1st villages adopted by Modi. I am not going to lie, some quarters of the village seem fancy. But village's Harijan Basti, a segregated neighbourhood of lowered caste Hindus shows a different picture.
No housing. Useless toilets. Poor roads.
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Jan 21
#Exclusive
I know many people will not read this story as privacy is never a concern for us.
But read this story to understand what the BJP can do when you don't take your privacy seriously.
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Please stay with me..
restofworld.org/2024/bjp-saral…
In the run-up to India’s massive elections, the Saral app — which has more than 2.9 million Google Play store downloads — has emerged as a key piece of technology in the BJP’s campaigning operations so much so that Amit Malviya called it an "ELECTION WINNING MACHINE." Image
Until recently, the Apple App Store listed Jarvis Consulting, a Mumbai-based political consulting firm, as the copyright holder of the App. It was removed shortly after we reached out for a comment. Jarvis Consulting did not respond to us. Image
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Apr 14, 2023
🚨Scoop: Remember how in 2018, India's education minister said that he believed Indians were descendants of rishis rather than monkeys ?
Satyapal Singh had called Charles Darwin "scientifically wrong" and claimed "Nobody saw an ape turning into a man.”
indianexpress.com/article/india/…
Satyapal had said : "Darwin’s theory is scientifically wrong and so, in schools and colleges it must be changed."

And guess what ?
By the 2021-2022 academic year, Darwin's theory was quietly removed from the examination syllabus for the students of Class 9 and Class 10.

By 2022-2023, the topic of evolution was completely purged from school textbooks, Al Jazeera has learnt. ImageImage
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Feb 15, 2023
From Bangalore, to Paris, to Berlin and finally in Delhi, nearly nine months of reporting for #storykillers is now published by Forbidden Stories and their partners.

forbiddenstories.org/story-killers/…

Some findings here :
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I found that in the years following Lankesh’s killing, Hegde grew closer to the BJP, co-founding a company that lists an active BJP advisor as a director.

web.archive.org/web/2023021502…
In August 2021, Hegde co-founded a PR firm, Wise Index Media, which lists two additional directors: Shrikanth Kote and Beluru Sudarshana.

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Oct 15, 2022
India is one of the WORST countries concerning food insecurity in Asia. Only war-torn, Taliban-ruled Afghanistan suffers more than India, according to 2022's World Hunger Index. India slipped six places and ranked 107 of 121 countries on the 2022 index.

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Indian government fails to recognise how alarming hunger is in India. In the Supreme court, the government said there were no starvation deaths in India, which is not correct.

thehindu.com/news/national/…
This is the list of all hunger-related deaths in India. @rozi_roti

web.archive.org/web/2022033114…
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Sep 13, 2021
Yogi Aadityanath, UP's CM yesterday claimed - "Before 2017 was everyone able to get ration? Only those who used to say 'Abba Jaan' were digesting the ration." He LIED from the stage. My reporting from UP proves otherwise. A thread. Please stay with me.
Last year 5-year-old Sonia Kumari died in Agra, a district in Uttar Pradesh. Sonia born to 40-year-old Sheela and 50-year-old Pappu had reportedly gone without ration for 15 days before she died. Pertinent to mention that they are Hindus. Image
The neighbours who came to grieve with the family on the day of Sonia's death brought them cheap Parle G glucose biscuits, the only thing they ate in days. I should mention that this happened in 2020, four years after Yogi took oath as CM. Image
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