{"id":1019761,"date":"2026-07-10T08:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019761"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:38:28","slug":"whatsapp-submits-reply-on-username-notice-centre-examining-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/10\/whatsapp-submits-reply-on-username-notice-centre-examining-response\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp submits reply on &#8216;username&#8217; notice; Centre examining response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp has submitted its reply to the government&#8217;s notice on the &#8220;username&#8221; feature and the response is being examined, sources said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The Centre issued a notice to Meta last Wednesday, questioning the proposed username feature on WhatsApp, flagging concerns that it could materially increase incidents of online fraud, phishing, digital-arrest scams and impersonation attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Meta-owned WhatsApp has submitted its reply to the government&#8217;s notice on the &#8220;username&#8221; feature and the response is being examined, sources said on Thursday. The Centre issued a notice to Meta last Wednesday, questioning the proposed username feature on WhatsApp, flagging concerns that it could materially increase incidents of online fraud, phishing, digital-arrest scams and impersonation attacks.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019761","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=1019761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019772,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019761\/revisions\/1019772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}