{"id":979726,"date":"2025-12-11T10:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979726"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:38:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:08:51","slug":"sim-binding-order-poses-no-privacy-risk-enhances-security-cellular-operators-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/11\/sim-binding-order-poses-no-privacy-risk-enhances-security-cellular-operators-body\/","title":{"rendered":"SIM-binding order poses no privacy risk, enhances security: Cellular operators&#8217; body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the industry body representing private telecom operators such as Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, has said that the recent order on SIM-binding poses no security or privacy concerns. According to COAI, the measure does not require additional data collection by app-based communication services and does not create any new categories of metadata. It simply ensures that the SIM linked to a user\u2019s identity is present during periodic authentication, similar to the widely used UPI system. This, the association said, strengthens security without compromising user privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the industry body representing private telecom operators such as Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, has said that the recent order on SIM-binding poses no security or privacy concerns. According to COAI, the measure does not require additional data collection by app-based communication services and does not create any new categories of metadata. It simply ensures that the SIM linked to a user\u2019s identity is present during periodic authentication, similar to the widely used UPI system. This, the association said, strengthens security without compromising user privacy.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979726","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=979726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}