{"id":1018418,"date":"2026-07-02T08:52:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018418"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:16:38","slug":"centre-pulls-up-meta-over-whatsapp-username-feature-for-cybercrime-concerns-warns-of-action-under-it-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/centre-pulls-up-meta-over-whatsapp-username-feature-for-cybercrime-concerns-warns-of-action-under-it-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre pulls up Meta over WhatsApp username feature for cybercrime concerns, warns of action under IT Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has issued a notice to Meta, asking the company to explain why action should not be initiated against it under the Information Technology Act and related rules over WhatsApp&#8217;s proposed username feature, which authorities believe could increase cybercrime, sources said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The government has issued a notice to Meta over the rollout of the username feature on WhatsApp in India &#8211; a key market where the messaging giant has over 500 million users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has issued a notice to Meta, asking the company to explain why action should not be initiated against it under the Information Technology Act and related rules over WhatsApp&#8217;s proposed username feature, which authorities believe could increase cybercrime, sources said on Wednesday. The government has issued a notice to Meta over the rollout of the username feature on WhatsApp in India &#8211; a key market where the messaging giant has over 500 million users.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018418","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=1018418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018452,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018418\/revisions\/1018452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}