New Delhi. WhatsApp told the Delhi High Court during the hearing of a case that if it is asked to break encryption, it will close its business from India and leave. WhatsApp said this citing its end-to-end encrypted messages and users’ privacy policy. Now this matter will be heard in the High Court on August 14.
Actually, the Central Government had announced ‘Information Technology’ Rules, 2021 in the year 2021. According to which, all social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Twitter (now According to the new rule, users have been asked to trace the messages to find out who sent the message for the first time. This will make it easier to ban inflammatory and objectionable content. In this regard, an application has been filed in the Delhi High Court on behalf of Meta-owned WhatsApp.
WhatsApp says that our users rely on the privacy policy of end-to-end encrypted messages, so if we are forced to break the encrypted messages, then we will not be able to work in India and will leave from here. Let us tell you that end to end encrypted message means that if a user sends a message to another user, then only the sender and the receiver will have the information about that message. Any third person can neither read, see nor hear that message. At the same time, the lawyer appearing for the government said that in cases like communal violence, objectionable content is mostly spread on social media platforms, hence it is necessary to follow IT rules so that it can be known from where the concerned message originated.