After
drawing flak for making public the email addresses of over 1 million
respondents on its net neutrality and OTT regulatory framework
consultation paper, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai)
said it will not display addresses if users specifically state so in
their counter comments.
A
day before the deadline for counter comments to expire, Trai on
Thursday said “all stakeholders are hereby informed that during
submission of their counter comments, if anyone desires that his/her
email ID should not be displayed, it may be specifically stated so in
the email.”
The
regulator has suggested people interested in sending their comments to
have a “proper name for identification and display” in the counter
comments.
“Such respondent should also include ‘Do not display my ID’ in the subject of the email,” Trai said.
The
regulator had come under sharp criticism when it made the email
addresses of over 10 lakh people public along with their response on
Trai’s consultation on regulatory framework for OTT or internet based
calling and messaging services like Viber, Skype, WhatsApp, Line, etc.
Trai
said that it received a large number of e-mails from various
stakeholders as comments and stakeholders also requested that their
responses be published on the regulator’s website alongside other
comments received in line with past practice regarding such public
consultations.
After
processing the received emails, filtering various spam emails,
duplicate emails etc., and for proper display on the Web, these emails
were uploaded on Trai website, the regulator said.
“Since
many of the emails had only email ID as the header, for easy
identification of the stakeholders comments, the comments were
segregated date-wise along with their email IDs and uploaded,” Trai
said.
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