<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, R S Sharma has said that mobile apps should collect minimal data just as UIDAI does to give 12-digit Aadhar numbers to people. According to him, some apps are what he said ridiculously collecting more-than-required data and customers are unaware of what is being done with it. </span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In an interview to a private business channel, he said for Aadhar enrollment, only a person's name, date of birth and communication address are collected. Similarly, every app must collect as much data as is required.  <br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">TRAI had noted that the existing framework of data protection of telecom consumers is not sufficient and that all entities in the digital ecosystem which handle personal data should be brought under a data protection framework.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">These recommendations are expected to have wide-reaching implications for tech giants like Apple and Facebook as well as apps like Paytm.</div>