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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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[โ€“] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So does it just mean you can't use any of those apps if you use them on PC/tablet? Wonder if that would be big enough of a driver to push people to use something else for communication

[โ€“] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

The apps already use your phone number, on pc you connect to your phone app. But it used to be possible to change your account phone number, and that's what they seem to have blocked.