{"id":1018975,"date":"2026-07-04T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018975"},"modified":"2026-07-04T10:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:30:18","slug":"meta-team-meets-it-ministry-officials-on-username-feature-notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/meta-team-meets-it-ministry-officials-on-username-feature-notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta team meets IT Ministry officials on username feature notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team from Meta met officials in the IT Ministry following a notice summoning them over the contentious issue of the &#8216;username&#8217; feature on WhatsApp in India, sources said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Given that the timeline for furnishing a detailed explanation on the &#8216;usernames&#8217; feature is three days, Meta will submit its final reply as per the schedule, they added. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meta team met Meity officials on Friday following the notice summoning them on the issue of rollout of the &#8216;usernames&#8217; feature on WhatsApp in India. Ministry officials sensitised them about the government&#8217;s concern relating to the feature,&#8221; according to sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from Meta met officials in the IT Ministry following a notice summoning them over the contentious issue of the &#8216;username&#8217; feature on WhatsApp in India, sources said on Friday. Given that the timeline for furnishing a detailed explanation on the &#8216;usernames&#8217; feature is three days, Meta will submit its final reply as per the schedule, they added. &#8220;Meta team met Meity officials on Friday following the notice summoning them on the issue of rollout of the &#8216;usernames&#8217; feature on WhatsApp in India. Ministry officials sensitised them about the government&#8217;s concern relating to the feature,&#8221; according to sources.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018975","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=1018975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018993,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018975\/revisions\/1018993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}