WhatsApp's Encryption Battle in India

WhatsApp's Encryption Battle in India

Over the span of nearly a decade, WhatsApp has maintained a robust end-to-end encryption system, ensuring the confidentiality of chat messages between users. Initially drawing from the open-source encryption framework pioneered by Signal , WhatsApp embarked on this encryption journey shortly after its acquisition by Facebook in 2014. Despite occasional legal hurdles, the encryption mechanism has operated smoothly in the background, making WhatsApp the largest provider of end-to-end encrypted communications globally, with minimal controversy over the past ten years. However, WhatsApp now finds itself entangled in its most significant legal battle yet, presenting a formidable challenge. The introduction of IT regulations by India in 2021 mandates services like WhatsApp to uphold "traceability," necessitating the tracking of forwarded messages to their original sender. In a recent court hearing in Delhi, WhatsApp conveyed its potential departure from the Indian market if compelled …

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