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In the ongoing lawsuit against the Union of India, WhatsApp stated that it would leave the Indian market if it is forced to break end-to-end encryption to comply with the IT Rules, 2021.
The company has challenged the IT rules allowing the Centre to ask social media companies to decrypt messages and identify the first originator of information.
WhatsApp has challenged Information Technology Rule 4(2) of the 2021 IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code), which mandates ‘significant social media intermediaries’ to ‘enable the identification of the first originator of the information’, which may be required by a court order or other competent authority
WhatsApp says that it might think about exiting the Indian market if it is forced to break its end-to-end encryption due to the new Information Technology Rules 2021.
WhatsApp has challenged Information Technology Rule 4(2) of the 2021 IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code).