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The messaging app WhatsApp has sued the Indian government seeking to defend its users’ privacy and stop new rules that would require it to make messages “traceable” to external parties.
WhatsApp filed the lawsuit Wednesday in the Delhi High Court. It is arguing that government rules regarding the traceability of messages are unconstitutional and undermine the fundamental right to privacy.
The company currently uses end-to-end encryption for its messaging service, which encrypts messages in such a way that no one apart from the sender and receiver are able to read the messages sent between them.
The lawsuit เกมยิงปลา วิธีเล่น follows sweeping regulations for technology companies announced in February that hold them more accountable for content shared on their platforms. A 90-day grace period for complying with the rules ended Wednesday.
“Civil society and technical experts around the world have consistently argued that a requirement to ‘trace’ private messages would break end-to-end encryption and lead to real abuse,” WhatsApp said in a statement.
“WhatsApp is committed to protecting the privacy of people ‘personal messages and we will continue to do all we can within the laws of India to do so.”
The new regulations require internet platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to erase content authorities deem to be unlawful and to help with police investigations, including identifying the originators of “mischievous information.”
The government said it would respond to the lawsuit.
IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the government is committed to ensuring the right to privacy, but that it is not an absolute right and comes with “reasonable restrictions.”
He said in a statement that asking for details of the “first originator of information” is an example of a “reasonable restriction.”
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