{"id":1006067,"date":"2026-04-30T12:09:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006067"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T07:22:14","slug":"whatsapp-may-block-devices-linked-to-digital-arrest-scams-centre-tells-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/30\/whatsapp-may-block-devices-linked-to-digital-arrest-scams-centre-tells-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp may block devices linked to digital arrest scams: Centre tells SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has agreed to examine the feasibility of blocking device IDs \u2014 not just accounts \u2014 linked to digital arrest scams, the Union government has told the Supreme Court, even as the Centre sought judicial backing for a coordinated national framework spanning banks, telecom regulators and investigative agencies to combat the rapidly expanding fraud.<\/p>\n<p>A bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant is scheduled to consider the status report filed by the ministry of home affairs on May 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp has agreed to examine the feasibility of blocking device IDs \u2014 not just accounts \u2014 linked to digital arrest scams, the Union government has told the Supreme Court, even as the Centre sought judicial backing for a coordinated national framework spanning banks, telecom regulators and investigative agencies to combat the rapidly expanding fraud. A bench led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant is scheduled to consider the status report filed by the ministry of home affairs on May 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-telecom-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006067","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006068,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006067\/revisions\/1006068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}