New Delhi| Taking the fight for privacy to court, Facebook-owned WhatsApp has approached the High Court against the new policy of the Indian government. He says that user privacy is in his DNA. WhatsApp company will not share information related to ‘first promoter of information’ with any government including India. WhatsApp has said that the Indian government should stop its new policy to be implemented from Wednesday, because it is ending the privacy. WhatsApp has appealed to the Delhi High Court that the Indian government’s new guideline on social media violates the privacy rights of users according to the Constitution of India, because according to the new guideline social media companies have to identify the users who have the most Have posted or shared a message before.
WhatsApp has clearly stated that if anything goes wrong, it will take action on that user according to its rules after the complaint of the government. The WhatsApp platform is encrypted end-to-end, so WhatsApp must break this encryption to comply with the law. In such a situation, the privacy of WhatsApp users will be in danger.
Reliable sources told on Wednesday that the messaging giant has filed a case against the Indian government in the Delhi High Court, as the deadline to follow the new IT (Arbitrator) Rule 2021 for large social media platforms in India expired on Tuesday. happened.
WhatsApp said that the new rules violate the privacy of users.
The company had not yet made its lawsuit official, but according to it, “We built WhatsApp to stay in touch with friends, share important information during natural disasters, reconnect with separated families or looking for a better life Did to help you. ”
According to WhatsApp “Some of your most personal moments are shared on WhatsApp, which is why we have created end-to-end encryption in our app. When encrypting your messages, photos, videos, voice via end-to-end encryption Messages, documents and calls are protected from falling into the wrong hands. ”
WhatsApp has since May 15 proceeded with implementing its controversial user privacy policy, stating that “we will maintain this approach until at least the upcoming PDP (personal data protection) law comes into force.”
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) had asked the social media platform to comply with the Information Technology (Intermediate Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 by May 25 or face strict action.
MEITY announced the draft of new IT (arbitral guidelines) rules for social media platforms on 25 February.
According to the new rules, social media platforms have to remove objectionable content within 36 hours following a government directive or legal order.
The new rules state that middlemen, including social media intermediaries, should establish a grievance redressal mechanism to receive / resolve complaints from users or victims.
On the user privacy policy, the Facebook-owned platform with more than 400 million users in the country defended its position, stating that it would continue to engage with the government to resolve the issue.
