{"id":1018930,"date":"2026-07-04T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018930"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:23:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:53:01","slug":"government-cracks-down-on-chinese-apps-linked-to-remote-e-rickshaw-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/government-cracks-down-on-chinese-apps-linked-to-remote-e-rickshaw-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Government cracks down on Chinese apps linked to remote e-rickshaw shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has ordered the removal of three smartphone applications \u2014 BAT-BMS, Lossigy and Epoch-i-ion \u2014 from app stores after reports that they were being misused to remotely disable battery-operated e-rickshaws through Bluetooth-enabled battery management systems, prompting a wider review of app store oversight and EV cybersecurity. <\/p>\n<p>Confirming action on Friday, IT Secretary S Krishnan said apps linked to the issue had already been taken down after coming to the government&#8217;s notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has ordered the removal of three smartphone applications \u2014 BAT-BMS, Lossigy and Epoch-i-ion \u2014 from app stores after reports that they were being misused to remotely disable battery-operated e-rickshaws through Bluetooth-enabled battery management systems, prompting a wider review of app store oversight and EV cybersecurity. Confirming action on Friday, IT Secretary S Krishnan said apps linked to the issue had already been taken down after coming to the government&#8217;s notice.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018930","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=1018930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018949,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018930\/revisions\/1018949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}