Apple, Indian govt fight over privacy and user data after App Store rejects TRAI anti-spam app indiatoday.intoday.in

Appple and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) are reportedly fighting over the user data that iPhone users in India have on their phones. To be specific, the fight is about the an anti-spam app that TRAI has made. But this app has not been approved by Apple for the App store. Although the fight is not new and reports of it surfaced earlier when TRAI chairman R S Sharma slammed Apple a few weeks ago, now more details have come out in the open. TRAI alleges that Apple is refusing to approve its anti-spam app that requires access to user data, including contacts, on the iPhones.