{"id":977605,"date":"2025-12-01T12:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977605"},"modified":"2025-12-01T12:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:40:36","slug":"government-warns-whatsapp-telegram-and-other-messaging-apps-within-90-days-make-sure-your-app-stops-working-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/01\/government-warns-whatsapp-telegram-and-other-messaging-apps-within-90-days-make-sure-your-app-stops-working-if\/","title":{"rendered":"Government warns WhatsApp, Telegram and other messaging apps: Within 90 days, make sure your app stops working if\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications has given messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and Snapchat 90 days to enforce &#8220;SIM binding&#8221;\u2014a requirement that will stop these apps from working if users remove the SIM card originally used for registration. The directive, effective from February 2026, also mandates that web versions of these apps log out users every six hours, requiring fresh authentication via QR code.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the measure targets cyber fraudsters who exploit the current system where apps continue functioning even after SIM cards are removed, replaced, or deactivated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Telecommunications has given messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and Snapchat 90 days to enforce &#8220;SIM binding&#8221;\u2014a requirement that will stop these apps from working if users remove the SIM card originally used for registration. The directive, effective from February 2026, also mandates that web versions of these apps log out users every six hours, requiring fresh authentication via QR code. Officials say the measure targets cyber fraudsters who exploit the current system where apps continue functioning even after SIM cards are removed, replaced, or deactivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977605","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}