Question 6: How should the security concerns be addressed with regard to OTT players providing communication services? What security conditions such as maintaining data records, logs etc. need to be mandated for such OTT players? And, how can compliance with these conditions be ensured if the applications of such OTT players reside outside the country? Please comment with justifications.

Subject: Question 6: How should the security concerns be addressed with regard to OTT players providing communication services? What security conditions such as maintaining data records, logs etc. need to be mandated for such OTT players? And, how can compliance with these conditions be ensured if the applications of such OTT players reside outside the country? Please comment with justifications.

From: Dipesh Bhoraniya

Date: 06-Apr-15 5:31 PM

To: advqos@trai.gov.in

The govt should come out with regulatory frameworks wherein there is a curb put on practices such as spreading hatred among communities and infringement of individual privacy without ones consent. To ensures that the OTTs comply with such regulations, they must keep the records of their data.