{"id":978286,"date":"2025-12-04T08:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T02:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978286"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:14:00","slug":"govt-removes-mandatory-pre-installation-of-sanchar-saathi-app-amid-oppns-snooping-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/04\/govt-removes-mandatory-pre-installation-of-sanchar-saathi-app-amid-oppns-snooping-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt removes mandatory pre-installation of Sanchar Saathi App amid Oppn&#8217;s &#8216;snooping&#8217; claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has withdrawn its directive to mandate pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi cyber safety app on all smartphones amid the Opposition&#8217;s allegations of &#8216;breach of privacy and snooping&#8217;. However, the government said the move to roll back is people&#8217;s participation their own. <\/p>\n<p>The move comes just days after the government asked handset makers to preload the app to widen access to cyber protection for citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has withdrawn its directive to mandate pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi cyber safety app on all smartphones amid the Opposition&#8217;s allegations of &#8216;breach of privacy and snooping&#8217;. However, the government said the move to roll back is people&#8217;s participation their own. The move comes just days after the government asked handset makers to preload the app to widen access to cyber protection for citizens.<\/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-978286","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\/978286","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=978286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}