{"id":988157,"date":"2026-01-28T08:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988157"},"modified":"2026-01-28T08:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T02:57:53","slug":"whatsapp-unveils-high-security-mode-latest-tech-firm-to-offer-users-stronger-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/whatsapp-unveils-high-security-mode-latest-tech-firm-to-offer-users-stronger-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp unveils high-security mode, latest tech firm to offer users stronger protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta&#8217;s WhatsApp messaging service is offering users an advanced \u200dsecurity mode, joining a growing \u200bnumber of US tech firms that are letting users \u2060opt into stronger protections against hackers in exchange for a more restrictive experience. <\/p>\n<p>The new option, rolling out on Tuesday and called &#8220;Strict Account Settings,&#8221; is a one-click button in \u200cWhatsApp&#8217;s settings \u200cthat activates a series of defenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta&#8217;s WhatsApp messaging service is offering users an advanced \u200dsecurity mode, joining a growing \u200bnumber of US tech firms that are letting users \u2060opt into stronger protections against hackers in exchange for a more restrictive experience. The new option, rolling out on Tuesday and called &#8220;Strict Account Settings,&#8221; is a one-click button in \u200cWhatsApp&#8217;s settings \u200cthat activates a series of defenses.<\/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-988157","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\/988157","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=988157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}