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Munsif Vengattil
@MunsifV
@Reuters journo tracking India's tech sector. My work revolves around tech policy, electronics manufacturing, and big tech's India whereabouts.
Sep 21 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
BIG DATA LEAK ALERT ⚠️

Holding Star Health Insurance policy?

A hacker is leaking Aadhaar, PAN, medical reports and more sensitive personal data of customers of India's biggest health insurer via Telegram bots & a website

Backstory + what's at stake 🧵⤵️ Reuters was alerted to this by UK-based security researcher @jasonxparker last month

7.24 TB data leaked, including all ~31 million policies, he said

We spent a few weeks testing the bots, calling up few names figured in leak to verify, & talking to Star and the hacker himself
Jun 25 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Reuters investigated Foxconn's hiring practices in India over the past year. Here’s what we uncovered.

Married women are barred from an otherwise all-female iPhone assembly workforce.

Foxconn's logic: a married worker comes with “issues”, like pregnancy, or high absenteeism🧵 Screen grab showing top part of Reuters report. Text reads: Apple supplier Foxconn rejects married women from India iPhone jobs. Foxconn, a major manufacturer of Apple devices, has been excluding female candidates from assembly jobs at its flagship Indian smartphone plant because they are married. Both companies’ codes of conduct state that workers shouldn't be discriminated against on the basis of marital status. Story by PRAVEEN PARAMASIVAM, MUNSIF VENGATTIL and ADITYA KALRA The made-in-India iPhone is promoted as a tale of female empowerment: that an army of women in Tamil Nadu is behind the world-famous devices.

Yet, Reuters found there is discrimination against married women. We have been investigating this from ground zero since Jan 2023 Picture description: Auto-rickshaws pass by billboards promoting Apple’s iPhone X devices in Mumbai. Most iPhones made in India are produced at Foxconn’s Sriperumbudur plant. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas
Nov 23, 2022 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
This month, I visited the southern tip of India, where the construction of a $900 million mega port by world's third richest person, Adani, is hanging in the balance.

What's happening on ground is a story for history books.

A thread on the @Reuters report we published today⤵️ Private security guards stand near an entrance of the propos For over 100 days, a shelter built by the coastal region's Christian fishing community has blocked entrance to the port. Any further construction (began in Dec 2015) is on halt.

It's a simple 1,200 sq-ft structure with a corrugated-iron roof - but it serves the purpose for them.
May 6, 2019 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Here’s a thread on the story @Reuters published today by @peard33 and me, on how Facebook contractors in India were working on a secretive project that could raise new privacy issues for the social media giant.
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LINK; reut.rs/2GWzSBG The contractors, under the payroll of @Wipro, were asked to answer five questions while ploughing through millions of status updates, photos, videos and links shared by Facebook and Instagram users over the last 5 years.
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