{"id":978600,"date":"2025-12-05T09:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T03:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978600"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:40:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:10:35","slug":"i-tried-the-sanchar-saathi-app-and-heres-my-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/05\/i-tried-the-sanchar-saathi-app-and-heres-my-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"I tried the Sanchar Saathi app and here\u2019s my experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the government\u2019s recent directive to pre-install the Sanchar Saathi cyber-safety app on all new smartphones, the industry pushed back, citing privacy and operational concerns. Even though the government has diluted its directive, I decided to try the app myself to understand what it really does and how intrusive it feels in practice. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what stood out while using Version 1.5.0 of the app, which was designed and developed by the Centre for Development of Telematics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the government\u2019s recent directive to pre-install the Sanchar Saathi cyber-safety app on all new smartphones, the industry pushed back, citing privacy and operational concerns. Even though the government has diluted its directive, I decided to try the app myself to understand what it really does and how intrusive it feels in practice. Here\u2019s what stood out while using Version 1.5.0 of the app, which was designed and developed by the Centre for Development of Telematics.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978600","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=978600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}