TRAI Latest News : legal name of anyone phoning a telecom user should be known to them with the help of aadhar card

TRAI Latest News : The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) advised on Friday that telecom consumers should be aware of the legal name of anyone phoning them. The regulator suggested that Indian telecom networks use Calling Name Presentation (CNAP), wherein phones display a caller's identify based on their KYC registration data. The Department of Telecommunications, which had requested TRAI's opinion on the subject, will now take the recommendation into consideration.

In a consultation document published the previous year, TRAI put up the concept. If users agree to this kind of service, the recommendations would let them see the name that is registered for each phone number that calls them. The recommendations made by TRAI only indicate that the Department of Telecommunications exclude "witnesses/sensitive persons" in accordance with a court order—they do not include a mechanism for telecom users to choose not to be identified when they phone someone else.

In the consultation paper that preceded this recommendation, TRAI stated that "telephone consumers, at various fora, have raised a concern that, in the absence of the calling party name presentation facility, they prefer not to attend calls from unknown telephone numbers, as most of such calls are unsolicited commercial communications [UCCs] from un-registered telemarketers." "Consequently, even legitimate phone calls go unanswered."

TRAI's consultation revealed that some respondents highlighted the trade-offs in privacy that such a recommendation would entail. The Internet Freedom Foundation said that this idea would "not give [users] control over whether or not their name is displayed to the recipient when they make a call," and that it would jeopardize the informational privacy of Indian users. Furthermore, it can result in the caller's name being used maliciously for things like spam or identity theft.

For More detail visit : https://www.trai.gov.in/sites/default/files/PR_No.08of2024.pdf