{"id":1023660,"date":"2026-07-25T08:45:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023660"},"modified":"2026-07-25T08:54:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:24:04","slug":"centre-bans-bitchat-app-used-during-internet-curbs-cites-security-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/25\/centre-bans-bitchat-app-used-during-internet-curbs-cites-security-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre bans Bitchat app used during internet curbs; cites security risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government has directed Microsoft-owned GitHub to remove Bitchat, a Bluetooth-based messaging application, citing concerns that it could be misused by anti-national elements, terrorists, organised crime groups and cybercriminals to evade lawful surveillance. <\/p>\n<p>According to a notice issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), the cybercrime arm of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the application enables decentralised peer-to-peer communication over Bluetooth mesh networks without relying on mobile networks, Wi-Fi or centralised servers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The government has directed Microsoft-owned GitHub to remove Bitchat, a Bluetooth-based messaging application, citing concerns that it could be misused by anti-national elements, terrorists, organised crime groups and cybercriminals to evade lawful surveillance. According to a notice issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), the cybercrime arm of the Ministry of Home Affairs, the application enables decentralised peer-to-peer communication over Bluetooth mesh networks without relying on mobile networks, Wi-Fi or centralised servers.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023660","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=1023660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023663,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023660\/revisions\/1023663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}