Imagine this: 1.2 billion people—basically everyone with a phone in India—just got an app shoved onto their devices by government order.

Not just any app. This thing can make calls for you, read every text you've sent or received, dig through your photo gallery, rifle through your files, and—here's the kicker—flip on your camera whenever it wants.

No consent popup. No opt-out button. Just... installed.

That's not a privacy concern anymore. That's a surveillance infrastructure going live at the scale of a subcontinent. One switch, 1.2 billion devices.

Makes you wonder what "mandatory" really means when it comes to your data, doesn't it?