TRAI, I don't want you to display my email id

NEW DELHI, INDIA: We will keep your email ids private, but you should mention ‘Do not display my id’ if you want your Net Neutrality emails to remain private, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has said.

The regulator that had received a lot of flak for making public more than 1 million email ids of all the stakeholders who had responded to its consultation paper on Net Neutrality, said that it will not display IDs if anyone specifically state so in their counter comments.

It 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. But please display your proper name for identification and display in the counter comments."

After processing the received emails, filtering various spam emails, duplicate emails etc and for proper display in 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,” it added.