Telugu Desam Party mobile survey invades privacy
IVRS is a computer-based system used by organisations to give cellphone users information
Hyderabad: Tech savvy Telugu Desam Party's intelligent new idea of asking people to select its candidates for the upcoming elections could face rough weather owing to privacy issues.
Announcing the new cellphone based Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS) candidate selection procedure recently, Telugu Desam Party supremo, N. Chandrababu Naidu had said that the party had acquired information of 8.3 crore mobile phone users in the state, and it would call them and ask them which TDP candidates they preferred.
However, experts say this is akin to intrusion of privacy. IVRS is a computer-based system generally used by organisations to give cellphone users information when they seek it. For instance, in the case of examination results, candidates can call the said IVRS number and enter their hall ticket number to get their results.
However, in the case of the TDP exercise, it is the other way round. Mr Naidu had said that all the cellphone users in the state would be called.
