For many years, mobile phones received cellular service through a physical SIM (subscriber identity module) card that connected your handset to your phone carrier. These physical SIM cards made it ...

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Experts discuss the impact of India’s SIM-binding rule on social media, messaging apps, fraud prevention, and digital rights.

The government’s directive, aimed at curbing cybercrime, will render chat apps defunct if not always connected to the ...

The new rule will make it mandatory for users to keep their SIM card with which they registered a messaging app inside their ...

The government's new SIM-binding rule aims to enhance security on messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. However, ...

India’s new telecom cybersecurity rules may force WhatsApp to stay linked to an active SIM and auto-logout every six hours.

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