{"id":1018902,"date":"2026-07-04T08:32:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018902"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:02:52","slug":"government-takes-down-apps-that-can-remotely-shut-down-e-rickshaws-via-bluetooth-the-bat-bms-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/government-takes-down-apps-that-can-remotely-shut-down-e-rickshaws-via-bluetooth-the-bat-bms-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Government takes down apps that can remotely shut down e-rickshaws via bluetooth \u2014 The BAT-BMS controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government of India has taken note of reports that e-rickshaws could be remotely shut down using smartphone applications linked to Bluetooth-enabled battery systems, with officials confirming that two such apps have already been removed from app stores. IT Secretary S Krishnan said the matter had come to the government\u2019s attention and stressed that app stores must exercise proper due diligence before allowing potentially harmful applications to remain available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of India has taken note of reports that e-rickshaws could be remotely shut down using smartphone applications linked to Bluetooth-enabled battery systems, with officials confirming that two such apps have already been removed from app stores. IT Secretary S Krishnan said the matter had come to the government\u2019s attention and stressed that app stores must exercise proper due diligence before allowing potentially harmful applications to remain available.<\/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-1018902","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\/1018902","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=1018902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018925,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018902\/revisions\/1018925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}