India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding (www.heise.de)
from schizoidman@lemmy.zip to privacy@lemmy.ml on 02 Dec 01:17
https://lemmy.zip/post/54163658

cross-posted from: 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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ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org on 02 Dec 01:21 next collapse

Meta/facebook forced it by bribing the officials in india…allegedly

redparadise@lemmygrad.ml on 02 Dec 05:41 collapse

Grand total of ₹5 bribe, neatly partners with the other surveillance apps the government is already forcing onto phones with gov ID verification app for everywhere you go on top.

ryannathans@aussie.zone on 02 Dec 02:45 next collapse

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?

PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml on 02 Dec 04:16 next collapse

“For web and desktop applications like WhatsApp Web, the directive provides for additional measures: users must be automatically logged out after six hours at the latest and re-authenticate via QR code”

My WhatsApp number is from a SIM I lost (for non-payment) about 5 years ago, so far the phone company didn’t recycle the number so I’m still using it :P

ryannathans@aussie.zone on 02 Dec 04:39 next collapse

I missed that part, oh no that’s awful

[deleted] on 02 Dec 05:55 collapse

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redparadise@lemmygrad.ml on 02 Dec 05:39 collapse

E-sim should work

als@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 02 Dec 07:33 collapse

I’m interested if Signal will pull out of the region, stand up to the authoritarians or fold and do as they ask

DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml on 02 Dec 08:02 collapse

Session is a fork of Signal that doesn’t require phone numbers.

far_university1990@reddthat.com on 02 Dec 09:50 collapse

Basically no longer fork since 2020, has own protocol now. getsession.org/introducing-the-session-protocol

Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works on 03 Dec 08:31 collapse

Too bad that whenever I’ve tried it, its eaten my battery