Why WhatsApp is dragging the Indian government to court this week

WhatsApp has sued the Indian government in Delhi high court over its new intermediary rules. These rules — which are coming into effect starting today — force chat platforms to find the ” first originator” of a message, endangering end-to-end encryption provided by WhatsApp, Signal, and other platforms. In a statement, the Facebook-owned service said that traceability will meddle with people’s privacy on the platform. The company added that it’ll continue engaging with the Indian government to find a middle ground: Requiring messaging apps to “trace” chats is the equivalent of asking us to keep a fingerprint of every single…

This story continues at The Next Web

Or just read more coverage about: WhatsApp

from The Next Web https://ift.tt/34fYEsH