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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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[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

US iPhone have no sim slot. How that work in inida?

[–] cryptix@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 11 hours ago

Esim is also considered as Sim inserted. During registration apps sent a SMS to mobile number, but with this the device will sent a SMS out to the chat platform. This ensure the number is verified. The message sent will be automated by granting the app SMS privileges. The Sim inserted/loaded will be noted by the app. During app startup it will check if the Sim inserted or loaded as esim is same Sim as before. Then it will work, else a Sim change warning will appear.

Source: UPI payment apps in India already mandates this approach. They want all other apps to do the same.

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

eSim

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 hours ago

physically inserted SIM card