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26 May, 6 tweets, 6 min read
WhatsApp moves Delhi High Court against IT Intermediary Rules 2021 mandating it to trace first originator of information

#WhatsApp #DelhiHighCourt
#ITRules

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WhatsApp in its plea before Delhi High Court has said that the Indian Govt policy of "traceability" will break the end to end encryption of WhatsApp. WhatsApp deployed end-to-end encryption throughout our app in 2016.

#WhatsApp #DelhiHighCourt #ITRules
WhatsApp before Delhi High Court:

In order to trace even one message, services would have to trace every message. There is no way to predict which message Indian Govt would want to investigate in the future. #WhatsApp #DelhiHighCourt #ITRules
WhatsApp before Delhi High Court: "A government that chooses to mandate traceability is effectively mandating a new form of mass surveillance".

To comply, messaging services Whatsapp would have to add a permanent identity stamp - like a fingerprint.

#WhatsApp #DelhiHighCourt
WhatsApp before Delhi High Court

"innocent people could get caught up in investigations, or even go to jail, for sharing content that later becomes problematic in the eyes of a government, even if they did not mean any harm by sharing it in the first place"

#DelhiHighCourt
WhatsApp before Delhi High Court

"Tracing messages by Indian Govt would be ineffective and highly susceptible to abuse. Think of this like a tree with many branches -- looking at just one branch doesn’t tell you how many other branches there."

#DelhiHighCourt #Privacy

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