DND 2.0 app removed from Apple App Store
By MYBRANDBOOK
The spam reporting app developed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), DND 2.0, has been removed from Apple’s App Store. It is unclear whether the app was removed by Apple or by TRAI.
Until 2016, the only way to report spam was to manually send an SMS with the text of the message along with the name or number of the sender to a TRAI-designated short code. To ease the process, it launched the DND app. At that time, the app would automatically fetch a user’s entire SMS inbox and call logs, and generate and send the reporting SMS.
But Apple found this method an unacceptable infringement of user privacy — the company does not allow any developer to get users’ entire call and message logs for any reason. In April, Apple had announced that apps that don’t receive an update in three years would be removed from the App Store.
In a confidential filing responding to the draft regulation, Apple said, “Enabling (a mobile app to transmit a customer’s personally-identifiable information and usage history to a third party automatically, without the user directing that action) would open the door to Apple users being tracked by third parties in ways that the users have not invited and might not even realize, and that might expose them to harm.”
Apple made changes in its iOS 12 release that allowed developers to make an SMS reporting extension to the iPhone Messages app, allowing users to individually select messages from within their message logs without having to first provide a copy of all of a user’s messages to a different app.
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