Airtel's mystery code raises privacy concerns
Author: Anupam Saxena - Published 2015-06-10 01:36Telecom giant Airtel has been accused of injecting lines of code into its users' web browsers without their knowledge, whenever they visit a web page via its 3G network.
Thejesh GN, an information activist and programmer has exposed how the telecom operator inserts Javascript code and iframes into a user's browsing session. He traced the IP address from which the code originated and found that it belonged to Bharti Airtel.