Meta: WhatsApp threatens to leave India
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Meta-owned social media app, WhatsApp has threatened to quit India if it is asked to change its end-to-end encryption and user data policies. cyber news informed of.
Mark Zuckerberg’s company has challenged India’s 2021 IT rules for social media in the Delhi High Court that a messaging service must reveal the name of the sender of the message.
According to Indian rules, messaging apps are required to trace chats and make provisions to identify the first originator of the information.
Meta naturally opposes such regulation because messages on all its platforms, including WhatsApp and Messenger, are now end-to-end encrypted, meaning only the sender and receiver have access to the message.
The tech company has also shown reluctance in sharing user data with the government.
In its petition, WhatsApp has demanded that the rule be “declared unconstitutional and there should be no criminal liability for non-compliance”.
Tejas Karia, who is representing WhatsApp in the court, said, “If we are asked to break encryption, WhatsApp is gone.”
“We have to keep an entire chain, and we don’t know which messages will be asked to decrypt. This means that hundreds of millions of messages will have to be stored for many years,” Kariya said. “There are no such rules anywhere else in the world.”
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