{"id":1018319,"date":"2026-07-02T08:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018319"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:43:16","slug":"why-the-govt-is-wary-about-whatsapps-username-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/why-the-govt-is-wary-about-whatsapps-username-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the govt is wary about WhatsApp\u2019s username feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after WhatsApp unveiled its username feature, the government has directed the messaging app not to go ahead with it till regulatory scrutiny of the privacy-focused feature is completed. Banasree Purkayastha explains what these security concerns are which officials want to examine <\/p>\n<p>l  What is the new username feature on WhatsApp? <\/p>\n<p>STARTING THIS WEEK, WhatsApp has begun allowing subscribers to reserve usernames on its platform. The Meta-owned messaging app says this adds a new layer of privacy for its 3 billion-plus subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after WhatsApp unveiled its username feature, the government has directed the messaging app not to go ahead with it till regulatory scrutiny of the privacy-focused feature is completed. Banasree Purkayastha explains what these security concerns are which officials want to examine l What is the new username feature on WhatsApp? STARTING THIS WEEK, WhatsApp has begun allowing subscribers to reserve usernames on its platform. The Meta-owned messaging app says this adds a new layer of privacy for its 3 billion-plus subscribers.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018319","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=1018319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018324,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018319\/revisions\/1018324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}