{"id":979555,"date":"2025-12-11T09:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979555"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T04:01:18","slug":"telcos-back-sim-binding-order-dismisses-privacy-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/11\/telcos-back-sim-binding-order-dismisses-privacy-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Telcos back SIM-binding order, dismisses privacy concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The telecom operators have reiterated their support for Department of Telecommunications (DoT) directive on SIM-binding for messaging apps like Whatsapp, Telegram etc, dismissing concerns about user convenience and privacy as &#8220;misplaced narratives.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The DoT in its November 28 order, directed app-based communication services including WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal to ensure continuous linkage between user accounts and active SIM cards within 90 days. The directive also mandates six-hour logout cycles for web versions, requiring QR code-based re-authentication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: The telecom operators have reiterated their support for Department of Telecommunications (DoT) directive on SIM-binding for messaging apps like Whatsapp, Telegram etc, dismissing concerns about user convenience and privacy as &#8220;misplaced narratives.&#8221; The DoT in its November 28 order, directed app-based communication services including WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal to ensure continuous linkage between user accounts and active SIM cards within 90 days. The directive also mandates six-hour logout cycles for web versions, requiring QR code-based re-authentication.<\/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-979555","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\/979555","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=979555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}