{"id":1018443,"date":"2026-07-02T09:20:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018443"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:48:50","slug":"centre-flags-security-concerns-over-whatsapps-upcoming-username-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/centre-flags-security-concerns-over-whatsapps-upcoming-username-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre flags security concerns over WhatsApp&#8217;s upcoming username feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government on Wednesday expressed concern over the new username feature introduced by social messaging platform WhatsApp, with highly placed sources indicating that the issue is being monitored closely as it poses possible risks to digital security and the company could be sent a notice on the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Sources said that social media platforms must ensure that their products are not misused for impersonation, scams or misinformation, while adding that misuse through usernames, edited messages, fake groups or impersonation could invite regulatory action similar to the measures taken against Telegram during the NEET examination controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government on Wednesday expressed concern over the new username feature introduced by social messaging platform WhatsApp, with highly placed sources indicating that the issue is being monitored closely as it poses possible risks to digital security and the company could be sent a notice on the matter. Sources said that social media platforms must ensure that their products are not misused for impersonation, scams or misinformation, while adding that misuse through usernames, edited messages, fake groups or impersonation could invite regulatory action similar to the measures taken against Telegram during the NEET examination controversy.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018443","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=1018443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018484,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018443\/revisions\/1018484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}