{"id":75450,"date":"2025-12-02T03:41:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/01\/india-phone-sanchar-saathi-app-cybersecurity"},"modified":"2025-12-02T03:41:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:41:27","slug":"india-orders-phone-makers-to-preload-devices-with-state-owned-cyber-safety-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75450","title":{"rendered":"India orders phone makers to preload devices with state-owned cyber safety app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics voice concern as government says its Sanchar Saathi app combats cybersecurity threats for 1.2bn telecom users<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cybersecurity app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed, a move likely to antagonise Apple and privacy advocates.<\/p>\n<p>In tackling a recent surge of cybercrime and hacking, India is joining authorities worldwide, most recently in Russia, to frame rules blocking the use of stolen phones for fraud or promoting state-backed government service apps.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/dec\/01\/india-phone-sanchar-saathi-app-cybersecurity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics voice concern as government says its Sanchar Saathi app combats cybersecurity threats for 1.2bn telecom usersIndia\u2019s telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cybersecurity app that ca&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[690,62,1004,3454,2771,61,58,2650,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-india","category-mobile-phones","category-samsung","category-smartphones","category-south-and-central-asia","category-technology","category-telecoms","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75451,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75450\/revisions\/75451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}