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WhatsApp, opposing the amendments to the IT rules, claimed the rules were introduced without consultation...
WhatsApp, the world's leading instant-messaging platform, on Thursday told the Delhi high court that the company would leave India if it was compelled to break encryption of messages and calls.s)..
"As a platform, we are saying, if we are told to break encryption, then WhatsApp goes," WhatsApp's lawyer told a Delhi high court bench, which was hearing the firm's plea against the amended information-technology rules..
The central government's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) has opposed the two companies' petition, saying WhatsApp had violated the fundamental right by denying users any mechanism for dispute resolution..
"Requiring messaging apps to 'trace' chats is the equivalent of asking us to keep a fingerprint of every single message sent on WhatsApp, which would break end-to-end encryption and fundamentally undermines people's right to privacy," it had said..
