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WhatsApp told Delhi High Court that people use WhatsApp- which has more than 400 million users in India- largely because of the privacy features that it offers...
WhatsApp told told the Delhi High Court that the messaging platform will shut down in India if it is forced to break message encryption which protects user privacy by ensuring that only the sender and recipient can read and access message content..
Meta-owned company's lawyer told the court, As a platform, we are saying, if we are told to break encryption, then WhatsApp goes."..
WhatsApp and Facebook parent company Meta are challenging the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021.(AFP).
Any rules undermining encryption of content as well as the privacy of the users violate fundamental rights guaranteed under Articles 14, 19, and 21 of the Constitution of India, WhatsApp argued...
