{"id":1018464,"date":"2026-07-02T09:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T03:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018464"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T04:45:06","slug":"multiple-layers-of-defence-against-scams-whatsapp-defends-usernames-feature-as-government-issues-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/02\/multiple-layers-of-defence-against-scams-whatsapp-defends-usernames-feature-as-government-issues-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Multiple layers of defence against scams&#8221;: WhatsApp defends &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature as government issues notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): Hours after the government issued a notice to Meta-owned WhatsApp over the proposed rollout of the &#8216;username feature&#8217;, the messaging service platform claimed they have built &#8220;multiple layers of defence against scams&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The government has asked Meta not to roll out the feature until satisfactory consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): Hours after the government issued a notice to Meta-owned WhatsApp over the proposed rollout of the &#8216;username feature&#8217;, the messaging service platform claimed they have built &#8220;multiple layers of defence against scams&#8221;. The government has asked Meta not to roll out the feature until satisfactory consultation.<\/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-1018464","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\/1018464","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=1018464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018480,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018464\/revisions\/1018480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}