New Delhi, May 26
WhatsApp has prompted the Delhi High Court to challenge the Agency's new digital rules that require the company to provide access to encrypted messages, saying it will violate privacy protections.
Completed Tuesday, the petition challenged the rules that sending a service provider to identify the original author of any message undermining Indian sovereignty violates the right to privacy, declared as a fundamental right by the Supreme Court.
WhatsApp says, “Seeking chat messages is like asking us to keep a fingerprint of every single message posted on WhatsApp. This will violate encryption and undermine people's right to privacy. ”
The list of grievances comes on the last day of the three-month period given to social media to comply with the rules, non-compliance could prevent companies such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and WhatsApp from being protected legally. of user-generated content.
The rules define '' essential social media mediators '' as those with more than 50 lakh registered users. They have been given the authority to use default processes to reduce pornography.
Facebook and Google have maintained that they are working to comply with the guidelines announced on February 25.
“Seeking chat messages is like asking us to keep a fingerprint of every single message posted on WhatsApp. This will violate encryption and undermine people's right to privacy, "WhatsApp said in a statement, adding that tracking messages would be" ineffective and easy to abuse ".