{"id":1018667,"date":"2026-07-03T09:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018667"},"modified":"2026-07-03T09:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:17:38","slug":"centre-asks-meta-to-hold-whatsapp-username-rollout-over-fraud-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/03\/centre-asks-meta-to-hold-whatsapp-username-rollout-over-fraud-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre asks Meta to hold WhatsApp username rollout over fraud fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre has asked Meta to hold off launching its username feature on WhatsApp in the world&#8217;s most populous country, citing concerns over fraud and impersonation, media reports said Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The move comes as authorities in India grapple with a spike in cybercrime, with scammers exploiting low digital safety awareness among millions of internet users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Centre has asked Meta to hold off launching its username feature on WhatsApp in the world&#8217;s most populous country, citing concerns over fraud and impersonation, media reports said Thursday. The move comes as authorities in India grapple with a spike in cybercrime, with scammers exploiting low digital safety awareness among millions of internet users.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018667","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=1018667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018681,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018667\/revisions\/1018681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}