{"id":1014508,"date":"2026-06-15T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014508"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:00:12","slug":"no-selfies-scan-qr-codes-to-get-photos-with-tn-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/15\/no-selfies-scan-qr-codes-to-get-photos-with-tn-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"No selfies, scan QR codes to get photos with TN ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Visitors walking into the chambers of ministers at the secretariat will no longer be able to pull out their phones for a quick picture or reel. But they won\u2019t walk away empty-handed either. A QR code displayed outside the chamber will allow them to download a professionally clicked photograph with the minister on the same day. <\/p>\n<p>The move comes in the wake of a recent incident in which a visitor recorded a video inside Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay\u2019s chamber. Soon, the ministers imposed a blanket ban on the use of mobile phones to take photographs or videos inside their chambers at Fort St George, a senior minister told TNIE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Visitors walking into the chambers of ministers at the secretariat will no longer be able to pull out their phones for a quick picture or reel. But they won\u2019t walk away empty-handed either. A QR code displayed outside the chamber will allow them to download a professionally clicked photograph with the minister on the same day. The move comes in the wake of a recent incident in which a visitor recorded a video inside Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay\u2019s chamber. Soon, the ministers imposed a blanket ban on the use of mobile phones to take photographs or videos inside [&hellip;]<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014508","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=1014508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014535,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014508\/revisions\/1014535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}