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Government Introduces 'Digital Fasting' via Forced WhatsApp Logouts

5 February 2026 - New Delhi, Delhi

Record date
5 Feb 2026
Location
New Delhi, Delhi
The odd part

Security through inconvenience: You can't be scammed if you can't stay logged in.

What happened

The Department of Telecommunications is moving to ensure that your digital life is as exhausting as your physical one. A new mandate requires messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram to enforce 'regular forced logouts' and bind accounts strictly to SIM cards. Finally, a solution to cybercrime: making the apps so annoying to use that citizens simply return to communicating via handwritten letters and carrier pigeons.

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