{"id":56882,"date":"2019-12-30T17:05:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T09:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56882"},"modified":"2019-12-30T17:21:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T09:21:45","slug":"indian-navy-bans-staff-from-using-smartphones-at-naval-bases-and-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=56882","title":{"rendered":"Indian Navy bans staff from using smartphones at naval bases and ships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>NEW DELHI, Dec 30 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Indian Navy has banned its personnel from using smartphones on its bases, dockyards and warships, according to local media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;All social networking platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other messengers from here on now will not be allowed at the naval bases and ships,&#8221; one report quoted an unnamed navy officer as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move is reportedly to prevent leaking of sensitive military information due to the widespread use of smartphones and social media sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently seven sailors were arrested from three locations in connection with an alleged espionage racket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local media reported the spying network targeted the Visakhapatnam base in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, the navy\u2019s Eastern Command headquarters.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Dec 30 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The Indian Navy has banned its personnel from using smartphones on its bases, dockyards and warships, according to local media. &#8220;All social networking platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other messengers from here on now will not be allowed at the naval bases and ships,&#8221; one report quoted an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":51566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56882"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}