Screens mirror govt policy divide as experts parse Sanchar Saathi order
Published on: Dec. 3, 2025, 6 a.m. | Source: The Economic Times
While the government pitches the move as a fraud-fighting, citizen-safety measure, critics warn that broad exemptions under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, could turn a seemingly narrow tool into a vehicle for overreach. Officials at the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) said that while cybersecurity is a shared responsibility of multiple agencies across the government, securing the telecom ecosystem is the purview of the department of telecommunications (DoT).
