WhatsApp may leave India due to a dispute over message encryption with Rule 4(2) of the IT Rules, 2021. The court is reviewing this, weighing user privacy against traceability demands., Technology & Science News - Times Now
The company has challenged the IT rules allowing the Centre to ask social media companies to decrypt messages and identify the first originator of information.
The Court also ordered Telegram to block channels sharing infringing content and Google to take down a YouTube channel containing copyrighted works of Apna College.
WhatsApp indulging in anti-user practices, obtaining trick consent , alleges Centre origin-businesstoday.intoday.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from origin-businesstoday.intoday.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Read more about Amid privacy row, WhatsApp says won t limit functionality of users on Business Standard. "We will not limit the functionality of how WhatsApp works in the coming weeks," ANI quoted a WhatsApp spokesperson as saying.