{"id":998762,"date":"2026-03-20T09:42:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998762"},"modified":"2026-03-20T10:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:37:27","slug":"indias-proposal-to-preload-national-id-app-aadhaar-on-phones-faces-pushback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/20\/indias-proposal-to-preload-national-id-app-aadhaar-on-phones-faces-pushback\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s proposal to preload national ID app Aadhaar on phones faces pushback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s government privately proposed in January that firms like Apple, Samsung and Google consider pre-installing its biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones, a move opposed by a group representing the smartphone giants, industry letters show. <\/p>\n<p>The tussle over preloading state-run apps has become a recurring flashpoint between Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government and tech firms, with the Aadhaar request one of six that Indian IT industry body MAIT has pushed back against, according to the letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s government privately proposed in January that firms like Apple, Samsung and Google consider pre-installing its biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones, a move opposed by a group representing the smartphone giants, industry letters show. The tussle over preloading state-run apps has become a recurring flashpoint between Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s government and tech firms, with the Aadhaar request one of six that Indian IT industry body MAIT has pushed back against, according to the letters.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998762","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=998762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}