Facebook still not ready to let Indian government track your WhatsApp activities

NEW DELHI: The government-Facebook dispute over traceability of messages in WhatsApp remained unresolved after Nick Clegg, the social media company’s vice president of global affairs and communications met senior ministers.
Clegg, who was UK’s deputy PM from 2010 to 2015, met home minister Amit Shah, national security adviser Ajit Doval, IT and communications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and commerce minister Piyush Goyal.
Clegg told ET that Facebook wanted to “provide solutions… not create problems” adding that “data localisation will create balkanisation of the internet… and make it unlikely that the next Facebooks and Googles will come from India”. On WhatsApp payment services, he said the company is “waiting for regulatory and central bank nod”.