These speculations were not unnecessary. In fact, the deadline for implementing the new social media guidelines implemented by the central government in February was ending on the night of May 25 and many big social media companies had not followed the instructions till now.
On Tuesday itself, the messaging app WhatsApp filed a case in the Delhi High Court challenging the new social media rules of the government, in which it said that if it provides access to encrypted messages under these rules, then it will protect people’s’ right to privacy. Abuses’ will happen.
It is noteworthy that Rule 4 (2) of the Information Technology (Intermediate Guidelines and Code of Conduct of Digital Media) Rules, 2021, issued in February, states that social media intermediaries having more than 50 lakh subscribers will have to ensure that any Identify the origin of the chat or message.
Right to privacy?
In a statement, a WhatsApp spokesperson said that “” tracing “chats from messaging apps is equivalent to asking us to keep a fingerprint of every message sent to WhatsApp that would break end-to-end encryption and fundamentally Will weaken people’s right to privacy ”
A WhatsApp spokesperson also stated that they “have been constantly engaging with people, society and experts from around the world to protest the needs that would violate the privacy of our app users”.
He also said that in the meantime he would be associated with the Government of India on practical solutions aimed at keeping the people safe and this includes responding to legitimate legal requests for the information available.
On Thursday, Twitter urged the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to give three more months to comply with the new rules.
A Twitter spokesperson told on Thursday, “We are currently concerned about the recent incidents about our employees in India and the potential threat to people’s freedom of expression.”
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