{"id":978150,"date":"2025-12-03T09:50:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978150"},"modified":"2025-12-03T12:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:41:12","slug":"sanchar-saathi-app-can-be-deleted-centres-clarification-fails-to-quell-snoop-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/03\/sanchar-saathi-app-can-be-deleted-centres-clarification-fails-to-quell-snoop-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanchar Saathi app can be deleted: Centre&#8217;s clarification fails to quell snoop concern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Tuesday said users would be able to uninstall state-run cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi from mobiles, but the clarification failed to placate experts and Opposition leaders who cited a government missive to smartphone makers to ensure it could not be \u201cdisabled or restricted\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The app, launched in January, can be used to block lost\/ stolen mobiles, check the number of mobile connections issued in your name, verify the genuineness of a handset and report incoming international calls from Indian numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Tuesday said users would be able to uninstall state-run cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi from mobiles, but the clarification failed to placate experts and Opposition leaders who cited a government missive to smartphone makers to ensure it could not be \u201cdisabled or restricted\u201d. The app, launched in January, can be used to block lost\/ stolen mobiles, check the number of mobile connections issued in your name, verify the genuineness of a handset and report incoming international calls from Indian numbers.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978150","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=978150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}