{"id":978076,"date":"2025-12-03T10:22:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978076"},"modified":"2025-12-03T10:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:52:04","slug":"sanchar-saathi-row-what-the-pre-installed-app-may-or-may-not-fix-in-smartphones-cyber-experts-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/sanchar-saathi-row-what-the-pre-installed-app-may-or-may-not-fix-in-smartphones-cyber-experts-explain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanchar Saathi Row: What the pre-installed app may or may not fix in smartphones \u2013 cyber experts explain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government\u2019s directions to smartphone makers to pre-install the Sanchar Saathi app on mobile phones have ignited a political storm, with several Opposition leaders branding the move \u2018dystopian\u2019 and accusing the Centre of creating a tool for \u2018snooping\u2019 on citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister for Communications, however, clarified on Tuesday that installing the \u2018fraud reporting\u2019 app on all devices would be optional and can be deleted by users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union government\u2019s directions to smartphone makers to pre-install the Sanchar Saathi app on mobile phones have ignited a political storm, with several Opposition leaders branding the move \u2018dystopian\u2019 and accusing the Centre of creating a tool for \u2018snooping\u2019 on citizens. Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union Minister for Communications, however, clarified on Tuesday that installing the \u2018fraud reporting\u2019 app on all devices would be optional and can be deleted by users.<\/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":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978076","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=978076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}