WhatsApp wants businesses to have a username. It hasn't said who's protected from fakes
WhatsApp just announced usernames for Indian users. Two days later, the Indian government told it to stop. The privacy case for usernames is real — phone numbers are permanent, linked to everything, and once shared, impossible to take back. But India already has 43,000 WhatsApp-related cybercrimes in a single quarter.…
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