An Indian social app keeps safety reports outside advertising

ZKTOR connects protected media, specialist grievance handling and encrypted communication, limiting how information supplied for protection enters the wider service.

 
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NEW DELHI, -A complaint can contain the very material a person wants protected. Softa Technologies confines review to case information and excludes safety processing from advertising, founder Sunil Kumar Singh said. His Press Club of India technical evidence presentation covered an all-in-one Indian social media platform with over one million users during ten months of mass public beta in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

A Women and Children Wing works alongside country-based grievance officers on specialist local-language handling. Restricted case access supports human review; users receive reasoned decisions and notification, with escalation and appeals. VDL protective AI flags sexual-content, impersonation and child-safety risks for the safety process. Review requires relevant evidence, not unrestricted access. Country-based data sovereignty keeps servers, encryption boundaries, keys and access controls nationally separate, backed by in-country backups and disaster recovery. Softa relates cross-border arrangements to India's DPDP framework and the EU's GDPR.

Protection precedes reporting. Under Privacy and Data Safety by Design, collection and access limits operate by default. No URL Media Architecture makes protected photo and video delivery dependent on audience permissions rather than reusable public file links, restricting scraping and extraction for impersonation or deepfake abuse. It cannot stop screenshots, recipient recordings or external-camera capture. Public, friends-only and private audiences work with comment and resharing controls in the women-first model for women's visibility, livelihoods and digital dignity. Safeguards cover children in adults' posts without accounts.

Operator access to private content is restricted by multi-layer device-to-device encryption, rotating keys and Zero Knowledge Server Architecture. One-time passwords authenticate account access, while operational records have a separate purpose. SNDESH, introduced at the briefing, gives platform-linked messaging three layers: device-to-device end-to-end encryption, message-level keys and rotating server-side protection. Also in standalone development, it excludes private exchanges from advertising and feed ranking. KHOZU.com was introduced for evidence-first search and AI-assisted discovery, combining inspectable sources, updated answers and visible corrections without profiling searchers or exposing protected media and messages.

Advertising uses different inputs. Subject, language and locality guide ZHAN's contextual, hyperlocal advertising; agencies supply campaigns, translation and merchant support. Programme terms allocate creators 70% of applicable content-attributable income. District-level plans concern creative production, community operations and language support. Task-specific multilingual assistance comes from HOLA AI; EZOWM supports commerce, while ZWATO handles business administration. Shared engineering keeps service permissions and national datasets distinct, excluding private conversations, searches and purchases from advertising profiles.

Hyperlocal-first Local Digital Worlds connect chosen districts, languages, communities and diaspora audiences without movement tracking. Softa's natural feeds are user-directed rather than behaviourally ranked, combining the no-pushed-algorithm model with zero behavioural tracking. Posts, status updates, short clips and long-form video channels share the super app with pages, clubs, buddy connections, news, messaging and individual or group voice and video calls. Singh associates Gen Z uptake with privacy, control and local relevance.

Singh links twelve years of India-focused research with rural needs and European privacy culture. A Finnish citizen, he has lived in Finland for over two decades. He said no Finnish or EU funding, government grants, external venture capital (VC) or business-house backing financed development, preserving data-use independence despite European opportunities. Softa's Indian development, Finnish headquarters and Chicago research gateway support its ISRO-inspired frugal engineering approach. The South Asia-first global strategy uses country-by-country testing; Bhutan and the Maldives continue mass public beta. He connects regional adoption with his ambition for India's technological soft power.

Singh links a future profiling-free internet, digital freedom and confidence to participate, create and earn with the right to be online without tracking or behavioural profiling. In that account, seeking a remedy does not turn a person's distress or private evidence into commercial information.

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