The Indian government has formally ordered Meta to pause the rollout of its highly anticipated WhatsApp username feature within the country. The emergency directive, issued by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), arrived just days after Meta began opening early username reservations for its three billion global users. While Meta has pitched the shift toward @handles as a monumental win for personal privacy, Indian regulators have flagged the infras

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