{"id":1018819,"date":"2026-07-04T07:47:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018819"},"modified":"2026-07-04T07:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T02:19:15","slug":"meta-team-meets-meity-officials-over-whatsapp-usernames-feature-to-submit-reply-within-timeline-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/meta-team-meets-meity-officials-over-whatsapp-usernames-feature-to-submit-reply-within-timeline-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta team meets MeitY officials over WhatsApp usernames feature, to submit reply within timeline: Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of Meta met officials of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Friday following the government&#8217;s notice over the proposed rollout of the &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature on WhatsApp in India, sources said. <\/p>\n<p>According to sources, ministry officials apprised Meta of the government&#8217;s concerns regarding the feature during the meeting. As the company has been given three days to furnish a detailed explanation, Meta will submit its final response within the stipulated timeline. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Union Government issued a notice to Meta directing it to provide a detailed explanation on the proposed &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature within three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of Meta met officials of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Friday following the government&#8217;s notice over the proposed rollout of the &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature on WhatsApp in India, sources said. According to sources, ministry officials apprised Meta of the government&#8217;s concerns regarding the feature during the meeting. As the company has been given three days to furnish a detailed explanation, Meta will submit its final response within the stipulated timeline. Earlier this week, the Union Government issued a notice to Meta directing it to provide a detailed explanation on the proposed &#8220;usernames&#8221; feature within three days.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018819","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=1018819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018841,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018819\/revisions\/1018841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}