WhatsApp is agonising over the prospect that the proposed government regulations for social media companies operating in India might push it out of business. The app’s USP is the end-to-end encryption which accords users privacy acts as a bulwark against government surveillance. It’s a battleground for political parties trying to consolidate their voter base. The Facebook-owned messaging platform has more than 200 million users in India, which makes it an extremely potent weapon for hate-mongering parties. The not-so-thin line separating fact from fiction as well as privacy issues are at the core of the regulations for social media.

Source: dna February 09, 2019 01:35 UTC