WhatsApp offers India traceability alternatives

NEW DELHI: With India pressing for traceability of WhatsApp messages to check the spread of fake news, Nick Clegg, Facebook vice president of global affairs and communications, has offered alternative ways to help the country, without any reference towards tracing the origin of the WhatsApp messages.

WhatsApp had categorically said in the past that the government’s demand to trace the origin of messages on its platform is not possible as it “undermines the privacy of the people”.