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The ministry slammed Twitters statement on Thursday as an attempt to dictate terms to the worlds largest democracy.

On Monday, Delhi Police visited a Twitter office to serve a notice to the micro-blogging firms country head

On Twitters statement that its concerned over

There can be no question that no one can be allowed to defy the law, whether delusional administrators put in charge of small islands or giant firms that operate across the world.

WhatsApp’s policy of launching separate privacy and data sharing policies for Europe and India has raised concerns. The options for sharing the data in WhatsApp or other social media platforms will remain same for the users in Europe.

Mitali Mukherjee in conversation with Nikhil Pahwa of MediaNama and Apar Gupta of the Internet Freedom Foundation on why the new IT rules are detrimental to the rights and privacy of individual citizens.

While the fight between Twitter and the Indian government is ongoing, let us take a look at 5 key developments that have happened in the last 24 hours.

Read more about WhatsApp goes to court against Indias IT rules undermining privacy on Business Standard. Requiring messaging apps to trace chats is asking us to keep a fingerprint of every single message: Company.

India Business News: Facebook-owned American instant messenger WhatsApp has sued the Indian government in Delhi high court on a day the new rules for social media giants c

With the new IT rules for social media companies come into effect from Wednesday, Google on Tuesday said that they are working towards meeting the compliance requirements.