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The Department of Telecommunications is moving to ensure that your digital life is as exhausting as your physical one.

5 February 2026 - New Delhi, Delhi

Record date
5 Feb 2026
Location
New Delhi, Delhi

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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