When Haryana based RTI activist filed petition in the Supreme Court on banning WhatsApp, fear loomed on 24×7 connected generation whether they will be able to enjoy free messaging and calling service or not. But today, as the highest court of India dismissed a petition seeking a ban on the ground that the messaging platform’s end-to-end encryption gives terrorists a means of communication that is impossible to intercept, users across the nation are rejoicing.
The petition was filed by a Haryana-based right-to-information (RTI) activist Sudhir Yadav who said WhatsApp has from April started to enable its every message with 256-bit encryption that cannot be broken into and thus could be a security threat.
Agencies quoted from the petition that stated that even if WhatsApp was asked to break through an individual’s message to hand over the data to the government, it too would fail as it does not have the decryption keys either.
Yadav in his petition said any terrorist or criminal can safely chat on WhatsApp and make plans to harm the country and the Indian intelligence agencies would not be able to tap into their conversations to take necessary actions; thus a ban on WhatsApp in India is required.
Yadav earlier wrote to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the Ministry of Communications and IT on banning the WhatsApp but as he got no reply from both he went on filing the petition.
The article first published on www.lafdatv.com
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