NSAB comes up with traceability to help Whatsapp

New Delhi: India could well have a locally developed solution to the message traceability dispute with social media major WhatsApp. Prof. V Kamakoti of IIT Madras, a member of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) which advises the PMO on security matters, said the solution would help Whatsapp to provide the phone number of the sender of a message, without tampering with the encryption which is critical to the Facebook-owned popular chat app.

Talking to ET, Kamakoti said WhatsApp can “easily” meet India’s demand to trace each message on the messaging platform if it is ready to work with the NSAB.