Apple tussles with India over national anti-spam app

Sep07

by Sindy Cator on September 7, 2017 at 4:03 am

Apple is battling with India’s regulatory agency for communications tech over whether the company should allow an anti-spam app to be installed on iPhones – and it doesn’t seem like a smart move for Cupertino. Bloomberg reports that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is unable to get its ‘Do Not Disturb’ tool into the App Store; it’s designed to crowdsource data about spam calls and messages, so as to help avoid unsolicited communication with telemarketers and the like. An Android version of the app is available on Google Play. According to TRAI, Apple says that the app violates…