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WhatsApp files lawsuit against Indian Government blocking of privacy rules
- Wednesday | 26th May, 2021
(Reuters) – WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday that experts say would compel Facebook’s messaging app to break privacy protections, sources said. The WhatsApp lawsuit escalates a growing struggle between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and tech giants including Facebook, Google’s parent Alphabet and Twitter in one of their key global growth markets. While Signal and Telegram downloads have surged in India, neither app commands as massive a user base as WhatsApp. The WhatsApp complaint cites a 2017 Indian Supreme Court ruling supporting privacy in a case known as the Puttaswamy judgment, the people familiar with it said. The court found that privacy must be preserved except in cases where legality, necessity and proportionality all weighed against it.
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