![]() ![]() While these problems are hard to solve, breaking into an encryption and thus violating user privacy is not the correct approach to addressing the government’s concerns about fake news and mob violence, says Nikhil Pahwa, a New Delhi-based digital rights activist. While WhatsApp has aided faster communication through its user-friendly interface, it also has become a platform of choice to spread misinformation in India, including abuse of the platform to distribute fake news and organize mob violence, experts contend. A possible scenario could be that WhatsApp bends encryption rules only for the Indian market and starts collecting data on messages exchanged between users, experts say. They're not going to back out of the Indian market,” says Woodward. ![]() “I can't imagine Facebook is not going to be in India. It’s unlikely that Facebook and WhatsApp will withdraw from India and its huge social media market even if they don’t prevail in court in India. India has over 500 million WhatsApp subscribers, highest in the world. Usage of WhatsApp in India has grown exponentially as smartphones have become cheaper and Internet access more affordable. They (WhatsApp) don't want to be in that business and have to secure that data,” says Matthew Green, associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute. “Having this huge amount of data is vulnerable to being stolen, or accessed maliciously. The reason tech companies have traditionally kept away from keeping data is because there is a huge cost involved in maintaining its privacy.
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