{"id":961577,"date":"2025-09-15T08:08:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T02:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961577"},"modified":"2025-09-15T08:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T02:40:41","slug":"indias-reliance-on-us-software-cloud-services-social-media-platforms-poses-economic-vulnerability-gtri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/15\/indias-reliance-on-us-software-cloud-services-social-media-platforms-poses-economic-vulnerability-gtri\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s reliance on US software, cloud services, social media platforms poses economic vulnerability: GTRI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India&#8217;s reliance on US software, cloud services, and social media platforms poses a major economic and security vulnerability in times of geopolitical tensions, think tank GTRI said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is in a position to cut off services or access to data, disrupting banking, governance, and defence systems, while controlling public discourse through foreign platforms, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India&#8217;s economy and security are deeply reliant on US software, cloud, and social media platforms, creating a major vulnerability in times of geopolitical tension,&#8221; the Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: India&#8217;s reliance on US software, cloud services, and social media platforms poses a major economic and security vulnerability in times of geopolitical tensions, think tank GTRI said on Sunday. Washington is in a position to cut off services or access to data, disrupting banking, governance, and defence systems, while controlling public discourse through foreign platforms, it said. &#8220;India&#8217;s economy and security are deeply reliant on US software, cloud, and social media platforms, creating a major vulnerability in times of geopolitical tension,&#8221; the Global Trade Research Initiative (GTRI) said.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-961577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961577","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=961577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}