Not only can it have 24x7 camera access, it can read your texts and call logs.
And with it coming pre-installed on android phones, it may even have root permissions which means that it can do anything on the device.
Note the ability to read and modify storage. This is entirely so the government can plant anything on your phone and arrest you later. Perfect solution to curb any political dissent since most courts in India are controlled by the RSS now and you won’t even get a trial for years.
They have made it “deletable” officially but if it has root access then it won’t go away. It still comes pre-installed and the tech illiterate population won’t do shit against this.
The BJP is mostly incompetent except for when they have the opportunity to fuck Indians over. I doubt that they would ask Google to install Spyware on the OS end with the shit going on between Trump and Modi.
Their tech incompetency makes this situation worse because I am 100% sure that their backdoor already has multiple backdoors which will allow anyone to steal data from anyone else’s phone or just hold your phone hostage.