{"id":984628,"date":"2026-01-12T07:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T01:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984628"},"modified":"2026-01-13T08:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:38:42","slug":"india-proposes-forcing-smartphone-makers-to-give-source-code-in-security-overhaul-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/12\/india-proposes-forcing-smartphone-makers-to-give-source-code-in-security-overhaul-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India proposes forcing smartphone makers to give source code in security overhaul: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India proposes requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government and make several software changes \u200das part of a raft of security measures, prompting behind-the-scenes opposition from giants like Apple and Samsung. <\/p>\n<p>The tech companies have countered that the package of 83 security standards, \u2060which would also include a requirement to alert the government to major software updates, lacks any global precedent and risks revealing proprietary details, according to four people familiar with the discussions and a Reuters review of confidential government and industry documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India proposes requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government and make several software changes \u200das part of a raft of security measures, prompting behind-the-scenes opposition from giants like Apple and Samsung. The tech companies have countered that the package of 83 security standards, \u2060which would also include a requirement to alert the government to major software updates, lacks any global precedent and risks revealing proprietary details, according to four people familiar with the discussions and a Reuters review of confidential government and industry documents.<\/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-984628","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\/984628","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=984628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}