India's telecom authority DoT mandates permanent SIM binding for messenger services. WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal must comply within 90 days.

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.

  • Deathray5@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    52·
    13 hours ago

    “to protect against foreign cybercrime”

    Mate your country is famous for allowing cybercrime in your borders

    • edgemaster72@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      13 hours ago

      Gotta protect the domestic cybercrime industry, they wouldn’t want that work going to some other country