{"id":1018458,"date":"2026-07-02T09:15:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018458"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:42:34","slug":"union-govt-issues-notice-to-meta-on-whatsapp-usernames-feature-seeks-reply-in-3-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/union-govt-issues-notice-to-meta-on-whatsapp-usernames-feature-seeks-reply-in-3-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Govt issues notice to Meta on WhatsApp Usernames feature, seeks reply in 3 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): The Union Government has issued a notice to Meta regarding the roll-out of the &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature on WhatsApp in India, said sources on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Sources told ANI that the Government directed Meta to furnish a detailed explanation on the &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature within three days. The Government has further directed Meta not to roll out the &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature until consultation on the matter is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): The Union Government has issued a notice to Meta regarding the roll-out of the &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature on WhatsApp in India, said sources on Wednesday. Sources told ANI that the Government directed Meta to furnish a detailed explanation on the &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature within three days. The Government has further directed Meta not to roll out the &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature until consultation on the matter is over.<\/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-1018458","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\/1018458","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=1018458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018474,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018458\/revisions\/1018474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}