{"id":1019309,"date":"2026-07-07T09:10:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019309"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:57:46","slug":"whatsapp-gets-more-time-to-reply-on-username-feature-assures-govt-of-no-rollout-before-consultations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/07\/whatsapp-gets-more-time-to-reply-on-username-feature-assures-govt-of-no-rollout-before-consultations\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp gets more time to reply on username feature, assures govt of no rollout before consultations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-owned WhatsApp has been granted three more days to submit its response to the government&#8217;s notice over its proposed username feature. According to government officials, the messaging platform has also assured the Centre that it will not roll out the feature in India until consultations with the government are complete. <\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had issued a notice to WhatsApp on July 1 over concerns that the username feature could increase risks of online fraud and impersonation. The company was initially asked to furnish a detailed explanation within three days and was directed not to launch the feature until discussions were concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta-owned WhatsApp has been granted three more days to submit its response to the government&#8217;s notice over its proposed username feature. According to government officials, the messaging platform has also assured the Centre that it will not roll out the feature in India until consultations with the government are complete. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had issued a notice to WhatsApp on July 1 over concerns that the username feature could increase risks of online fraud and impersonation. The company was initially asked to furnish a detailed explanation within three days and was directed not to launch [&hellip;]<\/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-1019309","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\/1019309","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=1019309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019337,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019309\/revisions\/1019337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}