{"id":1018912,"date":"2026-07-04T08:40:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018912"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:37:03","slug":"govt-orders-removal-of-two-e-rickshaw-apps-amid-remote-shutdown-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/govt-orders-removal-of-two-e-rickshaw-apps-amid-remote-shutdown-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt orders removal of two e-rickshaw apps amid remote shutdown concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has confirmed that two mobile applications linked to concerns over the remote shutdown of e-rickshaws have been removed from app stores, following reports that certain vehicles could be disabled through the Chinese smartphone application BAT-BMS. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the sidelines of a CII Cybersecurity Summit on Friday, IT Secretary S Krishnan said the apps were taken down after they came to the government&#8217;s notice. He also stressed that app stores must exercise greater due diligence before hosting applications that could pose cybersecurity risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has confirmed that two mobile applications linked to concerns over the remote shutdown of e-rickshaws have been removed from app stores, following reports that certain vehicles could be disabled through the Chinese smartphone application BAT-BMS. Speaking on the sidelines of a CII Cybersecurity Summit on Friday, IT Secretary S Krishnan said the apps were taken down after they came to the government&#8217;s notice. He also stressed that app stores must exercise greater due diligence before hosting applications that could pose cybersecurity risks.<\/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-1018912","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\/1018912","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=1018912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018927,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018912\/revisions\/1018927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}