MINISTRY OF ELECTRONICS AND THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HAS CHALLENGED THE WORK AND CONDUCT OF WHAT'S APP , FB TO ABIDE BY THE SYSTEM UNDER LAW

The union Government has stated before the Delhi High court that it is the legal obligation of Social media intermediateries Face Book and the What's app to evolve a mechanism to identify who was the first to send a message that has been forwarded to the others for which technical difficulty could not be any excuse to deny the legal compliance. The subject matter deliberation required to be maintained by the all concerned as related to the" Dangerous invasion of privacy" and defeat a concept known as end - to- end encryption. As such What's app was the first big company to challenge the information technology guidelines and ethics Digital Media Code Rules 2021 .The government is rejecting the position with high technical infrastructure, user base , revenue base and feeling the necessity of appropriate mechanism required to identify the unlawful informations origin and the first Indian originator of the such information. The IT Rules have already been stayed by the multiple High courts where in petitioners are challenging the other sections some of which pertains to the Social media companies and the streaming content service providers like Netflix, for executive over reach and the other violations of the constitutional provisions. It is well clear that the What's app collects users personal information and shares it with face book and the third party entities for business / Commercial purposes hence are not legally entitled to claim that it protects privacy. The said documents have been filled by the Ministry of electronics and information technology.