Whatsapp, Signal and Telegram face a catch-22 situation as India’s new social media rules threaten encryption
Whatsapp, Signal and Telegram face a catch-22 situation as India’s new social media rules threaten encryption
Prabhjote GillMar 31, 2021, 11:51 IST
India s new social media regulations may require WhatsApp to break encryption in order to complyUnsplash
India’s new social media regulations want social media apps like
WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram to identify the ‘first originator’.
In cases where social media apps are being used to spread ‘mischief’, the government wants the ability to track down the instigators.
Tracking the origin of messages may require apps offering privacy to break end-to-end
Germany declines arms export to India over IIOJ&K atrocities
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Germany has declined license to two firms planning export of small arms to India due to Indian army’s poor human rights record in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K).
According to official sources, German government fears that their small arms can be used against civilian population in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to a report published in Telegraph India, two Indian security officials familiar with bar on German small arms producers, said that concerns over security forces’ human rights record in Jammu and Kashmir have raised a barrier before Germany’s small arms exports to India.
Germany declines arms export to India for poor human rights record
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Germany declines arms export to India for poor human rights record
ISLAMABAD (APP) - In a big snub to India, over its “poor human rights record” in the illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the German government declined license to two firms planning small arms export.
Though Germany is India’s sixth-largest trading partner and its largest trading partner from the European Union, it feared that their small arms could be used against the civilian population in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
The massive human rights violations like military siege for the last 565 days since August 5, 2019, communication blackout, false incrimination of the innocent civilians have raised eyebrows of the international community with human rights organizations questioning the aggression against Kashmiri people fighting for their right to self-determination guaranteed under UN Security Reso
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On Feb. 13, 22-year old activist Disha Ravi from Bengalaru, India, was arrested by Delhi police due to her alleged involvement in the creation and circulation of a digital “toolkit” containing information on how to support the ongoing farmers’ protest in that country. The toolkit included petitions to sign, hashtags to share, and encouraged people to contact their representatives to condemn state violence and give ear to the farmers’ demands.
Ravi is a founder of India’s chapter of Fridays for Future, a youth-led organization dedicated to demand action against climate change. FFF India had previously been targeted by the government in July of 2020, when their website was blocked due to their criticism of a policy allowing corporations to ‘self-report” pollution.
Famous Artifacts Countries Want Back Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
By Debra Kelly/Feb. 2, 2021 12:53 pm EDT
All the big museums do it: They exhibit artifacts from other countries. But how many museums actually have a right to do so?
It s a difficult question to answer. In 2013, New York s Metropolitan Museum sent two statues back home after they were presented with evidence that they d been stolen from a Cambodian temple. That s great, but according to The Verge, proving that something was definitely looted, stolen, or otherwise taken illegally is tough, even though the Archaeological Institute of America suggests that up to 90 percent of classical and certain other types of artifacts have ended up in museums under shady circumstances.