{"id":1018642,"date":"2026-07-03T08:39:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018642"},"modified":"2026-07-03T09:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:36:47","slug":"first-whatsapp-now-telegram-signal-govt-tightens-grip-on-chat-apps-over-username-feature-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/03\/first-whatsapp-now-telegram-signal-govt-tightens-grip-on-chat-apps-over-username-feature-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"First WhatsApp, now Telegram &amp; Signal: Govt tightens grip on chat apps over \u2018username feature\u2019 scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has sent notices to messaging platforms Telegram and Signal, asking them to explain how their username feature works and what steps they are taking to prevent fraud and impersonation, according to a PTI report. <\/p>\n<p>The move comes a day after the Centre issued a similar notice to Meta over WhatsApp\u2019s proposed username feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has sent notices to messaging platforms Telegram and Signal, asking them to explain how their username feature works and what steps they are taking to prevent fraud and impersonation, according to a PTI report. The move comes a day after the Centre issued a similar notice to Meta over WhatsApp\u2019s proposed username feature.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018642","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=1018642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018665,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018642\/revisions\/1018665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}