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Air India has started inspecting the fuel control switches across its Boeing 787 Dreamliner fleet. Inspections of half the fleet have been completed with no glitches found, but inspections of the remaining aircraft of Air India are still underway. Following the reported defect involving a Fuel Control Switch on one of Air India's B787 aircraft, the airline company's engineering department has escalated the matter to Boeing for priority evaluation: Sources

I am usually not a privacy fusspot. Wanna show me ads? Go ahead. Wanna hear my conversations and gaslight my feed? Sure. Wanna track my movements? Meh. Just give me the convenience. That’s the reason I always found Apple’s privacy excuse for Siri sloppiness a tad unacceptable. I don’t mind a corporate “snooping into my life” if it makes life easier for me. I don’t mind the government playing the Orwellian “Big Brother” if it makes my country safer to live in. But to have on my device an unremovable spyware managed by the same government that not too long ago said Aadhaar was impossible to leak because the data was stored behind “12-foot walls”? That’s the exact opposite of security. No, I don’t mistrust the government. I mistrust its understanding of security against unaccountable bad actors. I don’t think am being unreasonable here. Sure, nothing will happen so long as my data is with the government. But what happens once it ends up on the other side of that “12-foot wall”? I say “once” and not “if” because…c’mon do I really have to spell that out? Of course am no rebel or anarchist, so not gonna give up using my phone if it really comes to pass. Am a law-abiding nobody, well-habituated to an arrogantly unscientific establishment with zero meaningful challengers. So life will go on. But I just wanted to register that I don’t like it. That shoving this Sarathi shit into our devices is not nice. That such moves may not inspire panic, but they do NOT inspire confidence either.