{"id":998756,"date":"2026-03-20T09:41:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998756"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:36:44","slug":"truecaller-joins-telcos-against-ai-based-number-blocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/20\/truecaller-joins-telcos-against-ai-based-number-blocking\/","title":{"rendered":"Truecaller joins telcos against AI-based number blocking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Swedish call management app Truecaller has sided with Indian telcos in opposing the blocking of mobile numbers based on flagging by artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions, saying consent should always come from the user. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because AI is a trained model and not entirely accurate, I would not have the confidence to automatically block those calls on behalf of users. We identify, but we do not block unless the user initiates it,&#8221; Truecaller CEO Rishit Jhunjhunwala told in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Swedish call management app Truecaller has sided with Indian telcos in opposing the blocking of mobile numbers based on flagging by artificial intelligence (AI)-based solutions, saying consent should always come from the user. &#8220;Because AI is a trained model and not entirely accurate, I would not have the confidence to automatically block those calls on behalf of users. We identify, but we do not block unless the user initiates it,&#8221; Truecaller CEO Rishit Jhunjhunwala told in an exclusive interview.<\/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-998756","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\/998756","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=998756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}