{"id":984661,"date":"2026-01-12T07:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984661"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T02:15:21","slug":"indias-proposed-smartphone-security-rules-that-are-worrying-tech-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/12\/indias-proposed-smartphone-security-rules-that-are-worrying-tech-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s proposed smartphone security rules that are worrying tech firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Below are key security requirements India \u200dis proposing for smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung, prompting opposition from tech companies, according to \u2060four sources, as well as industry and government documents seen by Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>SOURCE CODE DISCLOSURE: <\/p>\n<p>Manufacturers must test and provide proprietary source code for review by government-designated labs to identify vulnerabilities in phone operating \u200csystems that could \u200cbe exploited by attackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Below are key security requirements India \u200dis proposing for smartphone makers like Apple and Samsung, prompting opposition from tech companies, according to \u2060four sources, as well as industry and government documents seen by Reuters. SOURCE CODE DISCLOSURE: Manufacturers must test and provide proprietary source code for review by government-designated labs to identify vulnerabilities in phone operating \u200csystems that could \u200cbe exploited by attackers.<\/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-984661","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\/984661","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=984661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}