[sateesh]

The only upshot of this whole saga seems to be an increased awareness (though a small bit) in general public about importance of privacy in the digital world. Most of the media outlets (both English and regional language newspapers) provided a prominent coverage of this news.

[alephnerd]

It was Apple's pushback that lead to the DoT backing down [0], but they will most likely either try to push this again if they are able to assuage Apple (eg. drop the $38B anti-trust bill [1]), or will potentially adopt China- and Vietnam-style data sovereignty regulations.

English speaking urban Indians are loud on English media but ultimately don't matter for political decisions because they can't actually flip an LA or LS election. You need to either be a significant voting bloc or a major economic bloc to become a veto player in any country.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

[akudha]

Will the increased awareness change anything though? After Snowden, nothing seemed to have changed, it just seems to be getting worse.

Most likely, Indian government will try again

[lern_too_spel]

After Snowden, the single illegal U.S. surveillance program he leaked was shut down, the browser vendors essentially forced https everywhere, companies encrypted their WANs, and E2EE became popular in consumer applications. That's just off the top of my head.

[cookiengineer]

Come to the dark side, we got no cookies but gophers here.

[yumraj]

India is the biggest market for WhatsApp, not sure about FB. I doubt general population cares about privacy or even understands what it means.