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The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed astonishment that the colonial-era sedition law had not been repealed yet and prodded the Centre to scrap it, indicating it would otherwise go on to decide the provision’s constitutional validity.
Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana appeared to endorse the allegation by the government’s critics that the provision was being increasingly misused to silence dissent. “If some party doesn’t want to hear the voice of other party, they may use this type of law and implicate other people.”
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Justice Ramana underlined that the Narendra Modi government had repealed several archaic laws (about 200) and wondered why the sedition law had survived.
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WhatsApp filed a lawsuit against the Indian government over the new IT Rules 2021 stating that the rules will compel the messaging platform to break privacy protections, Reuters reported earlier today. The filing comes a day after the deadline to comply with the new rules passed.
Download a copy of WhatsApp’s petition here.
A WhatsApp spokesperson confirmed this news with MediaNama saying that traceability “fundamentally undermines people’s right to privacy.”
Traceability mandate will break end-to-end encryption
In the lawsuit filed by WhatsApp in the Delhi High Court, the platform said that one of the provisions of the new rules is a violation of the privacy rights guaranteed by the Indian constitution. The provision in question is the traceability mandate which requires a significant social media intermediary providing services primarily in the nature of messaging to enable the identification of the first originator of a message, people familiar with the la
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