{"id":1023643,"date":"2026-07-25T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023643"},"modified":"2026-07-25T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:41:09","slug":"centre-seeks-github-purge-of-bluetooth-chat-app-bitchat-cites-security-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/25\/centre-seeks-github-purge-of-bluetooth-chat-app-bitchat-cites-security-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre seeks GitHub purge of Bluetooth chat app Bitchat, cites security risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home ministry&#8217;s cybercrime arm, the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre, has ordered Microsoft subsidiary GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based messaging application Bitchat, according to a notice. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Government of India does not like technologies like Bitchat and wants it taken down,&#8221; said the app&#8217;s developer and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday in an X post, sharing a copy of the notice dated July 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home ministry&#8217;s cybercrime arm, the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre, has ordered Microsoft subsidiary GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based messaging application Bitchat, according to a notice. &#8220;The Government of India does not like technologies like Bitchat and wants it taken down,&#8221; said the app&#8217;s developer and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday in an X post, sharing a copy of the notice dated July 23.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023643","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=1023643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023681,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023643\/revisions\/1023681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}