{"id":939505,"date":"2025-06-19T06:49:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T01:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=939505"},"modified":"2025-06-19T07:24:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T01:54:51","slug":"iran-asks-its-people-to-delete-whatsapp-from-their-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/19\/iran-asks-its-people-to-delete-whatsapp-from-their-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian state television on Tuesday afternoon urged the country&#8217;s public to remove the messaging platform WhatsApp from their smartphones, alleging the app &#8211; without offering specific evidence &#8211; gathered user information to send to Israel. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, WhatsApp said it was &#8220;concerned these false reports will be an excuse for our services to be blocked at a time when people need them the most.&#8221; WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption, meaning a service provider in the middle can&#8217;t read a message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian state television on Tuesday afternoon urged the country&#8217;s public to remove the messaging platform WhatsApp from their smartphones, alleging the app &#8211; without offering specific evidence &#8211; gathered user information to send to Israel. In a statement, WhatsApp said it was &#8220;concerned these false reports will be an excuse for our services to be blocked at a time when people need them the most.&#8221; WhatsApp uses end-to-end encryption, meaning a service provider in the middle can&#8217;t read a message.<\/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-939505","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\/939505","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=939505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}