WhatsApp has filed a legal complaint against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force
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May 26, 2021
WhatsApp has filed a legal complaint in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday that experts say would compel the California-based Facebook unit to break privacy protections, sources said.
The lawsuit, described to Reuters by people familiar with it, asks the Delhi High Court to declare that one of the new rules is a violation of privacy rights in India s constitution since it requires social media companies to identify the first originator of information when authorities demand it.
Black fungus in India: 11,717 patients currently under treatment
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India currently has 11,717 patients of black fungus under treatment, Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers DV Sadananda Gowda said today.
He said this while announcing the allocation of additional 29,250 vials of Amphotericin-B drug used in the treatment of mucormycosis or black fungus.
The allocation has been made based on the number of patients under treatment which is 11,717 across the country, reports our New Delhi correspondent.
Giving a state-wise break-up of black fungus patients data, Gowda said Gujarat has so far reported the highest number of cases (2,859) followed by Maharashtra (2,770 cases).
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WhatsApp has filed a legal complaint in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday that experts say would compel the California-based Facebook unit to break privacy protections, sources said. The lawsuit, described to Reuters by people familiar with it, asks the Delhi High Court to declare that one of the new rules is a violation of privacy rights in India s constitution since it requires social media companies to identify the first originator of information when authorities demand it. While the law requires WhatsApp to unmask only people credibly accused of wrongdoing, the company says it cannot do that alone in practice. Because messages are end-to-end encrypted, to comply with the law WhatsApp says it would have break encryption for receivers, as well as originators , of messages.
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