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India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding (www.heise.de)

submitted 8 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54163653

The Indian telecommunications authority, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has instructed eight messenger services to implement a permanent binding to inserted SIM cards. Affected are WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Snapchat, ShareChat, as well as the Indian services Arattai, JioChat, and Josh. According to the directive, the companies must ensure within 90 days that their services can only be used with a physically inserted SIM card.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 17 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

How the fuck does that work with practically all of these having desktop apps? Can apps safely tell them difference between eSims and physical sims?

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