Lately there's been a lot of discourse happening in India over privacy laws especially after the Adhaar breach where Adhaar information was reportedly sold for $8 per person.
It was also revealed that the Narendra Modi app, which is the official app of the current Prime Minister, had been - or rather, is still- collecting user's information without consent.
Now the rift between Apple and TRAI over the development of a 'Do Not Disturb' app is particularly interesting because of two main reasons. A few months back the Indian government released a list of '42 Chinese Apps' that could be providing the Chinese government with intelligence data. The list included Truecaller as well. Truecaller later clarified that it was a Sweden based company and that its servers were not based in China. Furthermore the Indian Army also directed its personnels to remove Truecaller. The second reason being the development of a 'Do Not Disturb' app by a government agency which raises more questions.
All this comes at the midst of several privacy violation policies of the new government.