{"id":1023701,"date":"2026-07-25T09:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T03:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023701"},"modified":"2026-07-25T09:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:05:45","slug":"government-asks-github-to-remove-bluetooth-based-chat-app-bitchat-over-security-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/25\/government-asks-github-to-remove-bluetooth-based-chat-app-bitchat-over-security-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Government asks GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat over security concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bluetooth messaging application Bitchat, extensively used by protesting students during the ongoing NEET paper leak agitation amid internet curbs, was on Friday sent a removal notice by the government. <\/p>\n<p>Home ministry&#8217;s cybercrime arm, the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), has ordered Microsoft subsidiary GitHub to remove Bitchat, according to the notice received by it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bluetooth messaging application Bitchat, extensively used by protesting students during the ongoing NEET paper leak agitation amid internet curbs, was on Friday sent a removal notice by the government. Home ministry&#8217;s cybercrime arm, the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), has ordered Microsoft subsidiary GitHub to remove Bitchat, according to the notice received by it.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023701","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=1023701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023710,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023701\/revisions\/1023710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}