Privacy is not always for hiding a crime. A phone can 1. locate your position accurately 2. record your voice even if it is switched off, and thus a company or anyone in power can control you!
Think about whistleblowers and minorities. If you are, in any way, against a majority of power, like 1.a whistleblower 2.victim of police 3.any kind of minority, be it cultural (religious, caste, food-habit), social (lesbian, gay tg), behavioral (cannabis user, bitcoin user, nudist etc) you will be discriminated against in India. These maybe be illegal but only because a democracy operates on majority views; doesn't mean it is unethical.
Personal: There may be numerous other reasons why you would want to maintain privacy like for example if your wife got an abortion, a business deal etc.
My friend who works at Ericsson can track the exact position of my airtel sim! He makes various kinds of pranks amongst friends occasionally but what if someone holds him at gunpoint?
Not to mention it is disturbing (I never pick up calls from unknown numbers on my private number) & do not use any social network like watsapp, facebook etc.
The best solution in this scenario is IRC imo which is a decentralized protocol & people can join in from their phones or anonymously from the web etc.
I am not against maintaining privacy. It is personal choice if someone wants to disclose his identity or not.I only said that same person may have his profile public on facebook or other social networking sites but when it is about bitcoin,he wouldn't be comfortable disclosing his identity
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"These maybe be illegal but only because a democracy operates on majority views; doesn't mean it is unethical."
You seem to be one of those racist and majority-takes-all people, the thing is, a democracy respects the views of all the minorities and all people who live in India, then if you can prove this, it'll be proven that India is a non-democratic majority-takes-all type-of country which endorses a specific religion not being secularist (hardcoded in our constitution) and you, yourself are promoting that.
As long as you are not doing something that is illegal you have the right to conserve the same.
"record your voice even if it is switched off, and thus a company or anyone in power can control you!"
As long as you know how to take control of your phone and are tech-savvy enough to understand how a mobile phone works, you can control it.
The right to control your phone and take care of what and where it records is yours not the company's, a company still does it, that exact company should be known as a eavesdropper/stalker. (Again, google it)
The right to keep anonymous is crucial, because someone can freely express his PERSONAL views without INTERFERENCE which is a human right.
You know that India has a lot of problems and so, if someone freely opposes something (right to do so), he may get death threats so keeping anonymous should be legal (yes, SHOULD BE is not necessarily IS legal). I keep anonymous for the same reason and I don't want anybody have any effect on what I might or should say.
