{"id":1002140,"date":"2026-04-10T09:58:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002140"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:40:28","slug":"telenor-faces-lawsuit-over-claims-it-exposed-myanmar-customers-to-junta-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/telenor-faces-lawsuit-over-claims-it-exposed-myanmar-customers-to-junta-repression\/","title":{"rendered":"Telenor faces lawsuit over claims it exposed Myanmar customers to junta repression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK: A Swedish non-profit filed a class action lawsuit against Telenor on Tuesday on behalf of over 1,200 people whose phone data it says the Norwegian telecom&#8217;s Myanmar subsidiary shared with the country&#8217;s military junta following a 2021 coup. <\/p>\n<p>Telenor, which has since exited Myanmar, said it believed there was nothing in the lawsuit that the company had not already addressed and &#8220;in our view it is unlikely that such a claim will succeed&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK: A Swedish non-profit filed a class action lawsuit against Telenor on Tuesday on behalf of over 1,200 people whose phone data it says the Norwegian telecom&#8217;s Myanmar subsidiary shared with the country&#8217;s military junta following a 2021 coup. Telenor, which has since exited Myanmar, said it believed there was nothing in the lawsuit that the company had not already addressed and &#8220;in our view it is unlikely that such a claim will succeed&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}