WhatsApp Must Comply With New IT Rules: Opinion

WhatsApp is an important tool of communication for people in India. Almost everyone who owns a smartphone has a WhatsApp account. The social media application has been in the spotlight for the last few months, largely for the wrong reasons. After its privacy policy issue, the social media application will need to battle it out with the government concerning the new IT rules.

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According to the new IT rules, WhatsApp needs to help the government or the law enforcement agency whenever the originators of fake messages are needed to be found. But WhatsApp has said that it won’t be able to comply with the new rules because of its end-to-end encryption policy of the messages.

Because of this policy, WhatsApp won’t be able to find the originator of a fake message. Further, the Facebook-owned company said that if it complies with the new IT rules, it will lead to a violation of the fundamental rights of free speech and expression. However, things aren’t this simple, and WhatsApp is kind of disrespecting the Indian law when it is saying that it won’t be able to comply with the new IT rules.

WhatsApp Can be Banned in India

According to a Bar and Bench report, a man from Kerala recently filed a petition to ban WhatsApp if it doesn’t comply with the new IT rules. The petitioner pointed out that while WhatsApp’s privacy policy highlights that the application in certain instances store the messages that its users send and also accesses their contacts and other data.