WhatsApp Sues India’s Government
Facebook-owned company WhatsApp has sued the Indian government on Wednesday May 2021. The Lawsuit filed in Delhi High Court attempts to stop the government from enforcing the rules instructed to the company at the beginning of this year. Indian government wants WhatsApp messages to be “traceable” whereas all messages in the app are encrypted. The instructions by the government undermine the privacy of billions of people who use WhatsApp for communication purposes and will affect their security. “Civil society and technical experts around the world have consistently argued that a requirement to ‘trace’ private messages would break end-to-end encryption and…