The number of My Number personal identification cards held by individuals in Japan has topped 100 million, the internal affairs ministry said Friday. The ministry said that 100,029,804 My Number cards ...

A new directive will soon require users to access apps like WhatsApp only with theirregistered SIM card. The Centre is changing the way WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram work. A new directive from the ...

India's Union government mandates SIM card verification and six-hour session timeouts for messaging apps to combat cyber fraud. Platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram must ensure continuous SIM linkage, ...

India has more WhatsApp users than any other country, according to data from eMarketer. On Friday the department of telecommunications (DoT) asked companies that own messaging apps such as Whatsapp, ...

In a seminal directive, the Department of Telecommunications has instructed major messaging platforms-Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, Snapchat, ShareChat, JioChat, Arattai, and Josh-that these will have ...

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Kenyans registering new SIM cards may soon have to submit some of the most intimate biological identifiers known to science, including DNA analysis, blood type, and detailed biometric markers, under ...

SINGAPORE – Six people – three men and three women aged between 28 and 39 – will be charged in court between Oct 27 and 31 over their involvement in fraudulently registering SIM cards. In a statement ...

(WJAR) — Is your cellphone number private? It may be time to start limiting who you share it with. Scammers know our cellphones have basically become an extra appendage, and they're constantly ...

Apple’s latest release, the iPhone Air, has officially brought eSIM technology to China for the first time. Approved by regulators as part of a “commercial trial” involving China Mobile, China Unicom, ...

For EE retail (pretty sure this still stands) they have PAYM SIM packets that have a number printed on them, so you can ask to see all the SIMs they have in store and pick one of the better options.

A plot to cripple the telecommunications infrastructure – discovered in New York City as world leaders gathered for the United Nations General Assembly – has proven far more extensive than initially ...