{"id":1041415,"date":"2026-10-07T08:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T02:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041415"},"modified":"2026-10-07T08:53:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:23:03","slug":"bitchats-removal-from-app-stores-bluetooth-messaging-app-a-law-and-order-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/07\/bitchats-removal-from-app-stores-bluetooth-messaging-app-a-law-and-order-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitchat&#8217;s removal from app stores: &#8216;Bluetooth messaging app a law-and-order risk&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Amid the removal of Jack Dorsey&#8217;s Bitchat from app stores in India following the IT Ministry&#8217;s order, government sources on Tuesday said the Bluetooth messaging app was a law-and-order concern and therefore had to be removed. <\/p>\n<p>Sources also categorically ruled out any proposal to ban minors from social media. <\/p>\n<p>They noted that curbs have failed in Australia and that children are still getting around it, without accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Amid the removal of Jack Dorsey&#8217;s Bitchat from app stores in India following the IT Ministry&#8217;s order, government sources on Tuesday said the Bluetooth messaging app was a law-and-order concern and therefore had to be removed. Sources also categorically ruled out any proposal to ban minors from social media. They noted that curbs have failed in Australia and that children are still getting around it, without accounts.<\/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-1041415","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\/1041415","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=1041415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041417,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041415\/revisions\/1041417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}