{"id":1020691,"date":"2026-07-14T08:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020691"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:24:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:54:59","slug":"govt-mulls-common-messaging-app-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/14\/govt-mulls-common-messaging-app-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt mulls common messaging app rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government is looking to frame a common set of rules for all messenger apps, according to official sources. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), they indicated, wants to ensure all platforms \u2014 WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal \u2014 are offering the same features. <\/p>\n<p>MeitY warned WhatsApp earlier this month that its username rollout could raise risks of online fraud, phishing and digital arrest scams. It directed the company to hold off launching the feature until consultations concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is looking to frame a common set of rules for all messenger apps, according to official sources. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), they indicated, wants to ensure all platforms \u2014 WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal \u2014 are offering the same features. MeitY warned WhatsApp earlier this month that its username rollout could raise risks of online fraud, phishing and digital arrest scams. It directed the company to hold off launching the feature until consultations concluded.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020691","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=1020691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020692,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020691\/revisions\/1020692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}