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WhatsApp goes if we are made to break encryption: Platform to Delhi High Court

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The Delhi High Court was hearing petitions by WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook Inc, now Meta, challenging the 2021 Information Technology (IT) rules for social media intermediaries.

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WhatsApp goes if we are made to break encryption: Platform to Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court was hearing petitions by WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook Inc, now Meta, challenging the 2021 Information Technology (IT) rules for social media intermediaries.

24 days ago·India

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Scroll India

We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi HC

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.

24 days ago·India

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NDTV Gadgets 360

WhatsApp Says It Will Exit India If Asked to Break Encryption: Report

WhatsApp told the Delhi High Court on Thursday that it might stop operations in India if it is asked to break end-to-end encryption on its platform, as per a report. The Meta-owned instant messaging platform made the statement during the hearing of the petition filed by it and Facebook challenging Rule 4(2) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. Notably, this rule states that a social m…

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The Wire

Disappearing Messages: WhatsApp Says Will Leave India if Forced to Break Encryption

The court was hearing WhatsApp's 2021 petitions challenging a provision of the 2021 Information Technology Rules for social media intermediaries, requiring them to identify the first originator of information.

24 days ago·New Delhi, India

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MediaNama

WhatsApp says it will shut down in India if forced to break end-to-end encryption

“As a platform, we are saying, if we are told to break encryption, then WhatsApp goes,” Advocate Tejas Karia representing WhatsApp, told the Delhi High Court in a hearing for the petitions filed by WhatsApp and parent company Meta against the amended IT rules. In May 2021, WhatsApp filed a lawsuit against the Indian Government over the amended IT Rules,2021. The petition specifically opposed Rule 4(2) of the IT Rules, 2021. Rule 4 (2) required “…

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