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India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding (www.heise.de)
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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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[–] gtr@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago

Damn, Indians, are you okay? Forced spy app, forced SIM card... What's going on with your government?