{"id":981857,"date":"2025-12-24T07:57:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981857"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:08:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:38:44","slug":"concern-over-misuse-extent-even-as-whatsapp-bans-1-crore-numbers-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/24\/concern-over-misuse-extent-even-as-whatsapp-bans-1-crore-numbers-a-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Concern over misuse extent even as WhatsApp bans 1 crore numbers a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government is concerned that WhatsApp has banned an average 9.8 million Indian accounts a month till October this year for various violations and is discussing with the platform how widespread misuse of Indian numbers can be stopped, said people with knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The messaging company&#8217;s policy of not sharing details of the corresponding mobile numbers is impeding the government&#8217;s efforts to check spam and cyber fraud and is in discussions with the platform, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The government is concerned that WhatsApp has banned an average 9.8 million Indian accounts a month till October this year for various violations and is discussing with the platform how widespread misuse of Indian numbers can be stopped, said people with knowledge of the matter. The messaging company&#8217;s policy of not sharing details of the corresponding mobile numbers is impeding the government&#8217;s efforts to check spam and cyber fraud and is in discussions with the platform, officials said.<\/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-981857","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\/981857","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=981857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}