{"id":1018338,"date":"2026-07-02T08:49:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018338"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:19:53","slug":"govt-to-assess-fraud-risks-of-whatsapps-username-feature-meity-to-call-meta-for-talks-larger-issue-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/govt-to-assess-fraud-risks-of-whatsapps-username-feature-meity-to-call-meta-for-talks-larger-issue-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt to assess fraud \u2018risks\u2019 of WhatsApp&#8217;s username feature; MeitY to call Meta for talks: \u2018Larger issue is\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is reportedly looking into WhatsApp&#8217;s planned username feature amid concerns it could be misused for impersonation and fraud. Sources told PTI that the government will assess potential risks.<\/p>\n<p>They noted that the Meta-owned platform&#8217;s latest announcement introducing usernames, a feature that will allow users to communicate without sharing their phone numbers, raises concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is reportedly looking into WhatsApp&#8217;s planned username feature amid concerns it could be misused for impersonation and fraud. Sources told PTI that the government will assess potential risks. They noted that the Meta-owned platform&#8217;s latest announcement introducing usernames, a feature that will allow users to communicate without sharing their phone numbers, raises concerns.<\/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":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018338","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=1018338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018339,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018338\/revisions\/1018339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}