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throw_away_1042on Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

>You can’t dispute with police under this section given section 91 is a rare section.

This is not true. There is enough precedence where this was successfully disputed. Including by Google and Amazon in India. Would Apple turn in all the records if a police officer asks for any data they seem fit for an investigation?

Re Hindutva:, there is enough literature online to educate you about it. https://cjp.org.in/tag/hindutva/

throw_away_1042on Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

The account I have used is more than a year old. I would be harassed by Hindutva goons online and offline if I use my real identity. Maybe also a false police case.

Also Razorpay is not innocent here. They could have disputed the demand in the court. Could have informed the users that their data was shared with government. Could have shared only the transactions that originated in a foreign country.They did none of these.

Also note that donations could not have been done with a foreign credit card. So the intent is to harass the individuals that supported the fack-checking website.

Also, note that the founder and the company has been fans of the current nationalistic government. More reasons why they did not dispute the police demand.

https://twitter.com/shashank_kr/status/1175974410202697728

https://imgur.com/a/ZDRZZ87

throw_away_1042on Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

Anonymous because I worry about my and family's life. I have a real handle, if I use that, I'm almost certain that I will receive death threats and false police cases.

The issue is not misrepresented. There was no court order. The said police written request is not contested by Razorypay.

Looking at the past tweets from one of the co-founder it is not surprising to see the compliance with the request.

https://twitter.com/shashank_kr/status/1175974410202697728

https://imgur.com/a/ZDRZZ87

throw_away_1042on Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

The source you quoted is questionable.

"The website has published fake news[26] and anti-Muslim[30] commentary on multiple occasions, including a 2020 incident in which it falsely claimed that a Hindu boy was sacrificed in a Bihar mosque"

From the wiki page of OpIndia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpIndia

Also foreign credit cards were not enabled on RazorPay

throw_away_1042on Tell HN: Razorpay a YC company shared donor data under a Section 91 order

>money was received from syria and pakistan to this account

This is untrue. Razor pay did not accept international credit cards.

>Data was sought from the startup about this account by court order.

There was no court order.

throw_away_1042on Microsoft Wallops Amazon in 2020 Cloud Revenue

When opensource version of cloud docs/sheets available. Then we will see AWS: X as a Service.

I don't think AWS tries to create any non trivial software.

Take open source software, slap AWS brand on it, and sell it through the ecosystem it has successfully created.

RDS, Document DB, Elastic, EMR and other countless services comes to mind.