WhatsApp sues India govt, says new IT rules mean end to privacy

Facebook-owned WhatsApp has filed a case in the Delhi High Court against the Indian government, seeking to block the new IT rules that come into effect today. The new rules require “significant social media intermediaries” like WhatsApp to “trace” the origin of particular messages sent on the service.

The WhatsApp vs Government of India case was filed on Tuesday, May 25.

“Requiring messaging apps to ‘trace’ chats is the equivalent of asking us to keep a fingerprint of every single message sent on WhatsApp, which would break end-to-end encryption and fundamentally undermines people’s right to privacy,” a spokesperson for the world’s largest messaging app said on Wednesday.