{"id":1018450,"date":"2026-07-02T09:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018450"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:49:34","slug":"centre-slaps-notice-on-meta-over-whatsapps-new-username-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/centre-slaps-notice-on-meta-over-whatsapps-new-username-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre slaps notice on Meta over WhatsApp\u2019s new username feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Wednesday issued a notice to Meta over the proposed rollout of its \u201cusernames\u201d feature on WhatsApp, asking the company to submit a report within three days, highly placed sources said. <\/p>\n<p>The company had been told to furnish a detailed explanation on the feature within three days and not to launch it until consultation on the matter was over, the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Wednesday issued a notice to Meta over the proposed rollout of its \u201cusernames\u201d feature on WhatsApp, asking the company to submit a report within three days, highly placed sources said. The company had been told to furnish a detailed explanation on the feature within three days and not to launch it until consultation on the matter was over, the sources said.<\/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-1018450","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\/1018450","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=1018450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018487,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018450\/revisions\/1018487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}