Facebook vs India, sparring over decryption of private messages

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s government asked Facebook Inc on Tuesday to help it decrypt private messages on its network, citing national security requirements in a court hearing on privacy rights on social media platforms. Venugopal told the Supreme Court that it was the responsibility of social media companies to share data wherever there was a threat to national security. The case went to the Supreme court after Facebook in August asked the top court to hear all cases concerning privacy and curbs on social media usage, local media reported. But I don’t have the key myself,” Rohtagi said, referring to Facebook or WhatsApp servers which are located outside of India. But Judge Deepak Gupta asked the government lawyers to explain why the onus of facilitating decryption should be on the social media companies.

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