{"id":1697,"date":"2026-08-03T03:15:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:15:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:15:37","slug":"centre-sends-notice-to-meta-over-fraud-risks-in-whatsapp-username-feature-rollout-paused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"Centre sends notice to Meta over fraud risks in WhatsApp username feature; rollout paused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government of India on Wednesday issued a notice to Meta regarding the controversial username feature on WhatsApp in India due to concerns about impersonation and fraud, and warned the platform not to roll it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/technology\/report-whatsapp-to-receive-notice-from-centre-over-impersonation-fraud-risks-in-its-username-feature-check-details-3214937' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.dnaindia.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of India on Wednesday issued a notice to Meta regarding the controversial username feature on WhatsApp in India due to concerns about impersonation and fraud, and warned the platform not to roll it. Source: Read the original article on www.dnaindia.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3],"tags":[14,28,32],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share-suggestions","category-technology","tag-impact-meta","tag-signal-buy","tag-stage-stage-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}