Has Govt Proposed Measure To Force Smartphone Manufacturers To Share Their Source Code? Check Truth Behind The Claim

New Delhi: The government has refuted media report that said the center is proposing to force smartphone makers to share source code with the government. 

A Reuters report has said that India has proposed to force smartphone manufacturers to share their source code as part of a security overhaul. 

Fact-checking agency PIB has refuted the media claim. PIB has stated that the claim being made in this post is misleading.

“This claim is FAKE. The Government of India has NOT proposed any measure to force smartphone manufacturers to share their source code,” PIB has tweeted.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has started the process of stakeholders’ consultations to devise the most appropriate regulatory framework for mobile security. This is a part of regular and routine consultations with the industry for any safety or security standards. Once a stakeholder consultation is done, then various aspects of security standards are discussed with the industry.

No final regulations have been framed, and any future framework will be formulated only after due consultations, it added.

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