{"id":843592,"date":"2024-08-12T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T05:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=843592"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T06:17:12","slug":"russia-blocks-messaging-app-signal-as-authorities-tighten-control-over-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/12\/russia-blocks-messaging-app-signal-as-authorities-tighten-control-over-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia blocks messaging app Signal as authorities tighten control over information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ussia&#8217;s state communications watchdog said Friday it has blocked access to the Signal messaging app, the latest move in the authorities&#8217; efforts to tighten controls over information amid the fighting in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The agency, Roskomnadzor, said it made the decision because of Signal&#8217;s &#8220;violation of the requirements of Russian legislation which must be observed to prevent the messenger&#8217;s use for terrorist and extremist purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Signal uses end-to-end encryption, making it difficult for the Russian government to intercept communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ussia&#8217;s state communications watchdog said Friday it has blocked access to the Signal messaging app, the latest move in the authorities&#8217; efforts to tighten controls over information amid the fighting in Ukraine. The agency, Roskomnadzor, said it made the decision because of Signal&#8217;s &#8220;violation of the requirements of Russian legislation which must be observed to prevent the messenger&#8217;s use for terrorist and extremist purposes.&#8221; Signal uses end-to-end encryption, making it difficult for the Russian government to intercept communications.<\/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-843592","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\/843592","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=843592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}