Is Whatsapp Going To Exit India Over Encryption Dispute? | Delhi HC Hearing Explained in 2 Minutes

India is one of the largest markets for messaging app Whatsapp, which is owned by Meta. But now, Whatsapp has threatened that they're ready to exit the India market. They said this in the Delhi High Court, during a hearing in which Whatsapp has challenged a new Indian law which requires social media platforms to identify the FIRST originators of certain messages, if a court orders them to do so. Whatsapp insists that this violates user privacy. Watch
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[vineetyadavvv]

This govt wants access to our private chats and calls 👏💀 Huge respect to meta team who declined to compromise with end to end encryption policy 🛐 Even if it has to leave the Indian market 🛐

[Batmancar]

Most of the people not even understand that zuck literally is favor of civilians but here gawars are not understanding

[tbzstan]

stupid people in the comments apparently don't have a sense of privacy

[rajendrabiswas]

plsss dont leave ! I need Watsapp ...govt is wasting time and harassing public

[preetham]

I can see lot of uneducated and blind people who doesn't see the side-effects of this change. Encryption is for our own safety government shouldn't have any right to involve in a persons day to day life. Many jobs are running on whatsapp business. Normal stores to big companies like zomato, swiggy, educational institutions, hospitals and many more organisations uses whatsapp business which has created lot of jobs on the CRM world. All of them will lose their jobs because of this unnecessary regulations imposed by government and there will be some partial damage to the GDP as well.

[sea]

This is nothing except modis down grading nature to everything. He want to create HinduSaap

[Randomguyoninternet-kinx]

i am happy that people on this comment section still look responsible, while on Palki Sharma’s post, 90 percent of the comments were defending the government and saying that Adani and Ambani will develop a new app💀

[actwin_]

Modi's magic & development. They simply want all data. They are really fearful

[siri]

I'm with WhatsApp on this one... User privacy cannot be compromised... 👍

[wunnavavijayasrinivasarao]

Good. When are you exiting India WhatsApp??

[Ssrijon]

🤔 if Whatsapp leaves.. Zuckerberg could also pull messenger and Facebook too... i see alot of idiots saying bye to Whatsapp, wave bye to Facebook and messenger as well

[srmurthy]

very good...let them.do it...One has a responsibility to abide by thw laws of the country..Whether they are ready to give this statement in China, Taliban or Other such countries..dont try to dictate terms to Governments...

[Jsohk]

Very Very good Indian will creat their own 100% WhatsApp will regret

[shreeveda]

Hypocritic American companies are bullying India. They think this is India of 20th century. High time Bharat gets it's own platforms, what with millions of highest quality techies and hundreds of CEOs globally, who have had an Indian education.

[sireekrishn]

We will bring back hike app ... I still miss hike messenger app...

[Rickyroy]

People saying to leave needs to know there are many on going business happening on meta platforms so when meta platform left it will affect our people. Just look into the statics of powershut of insta and whatsapp. Encrytion is there for a reason. Just imagine government need to control everything by accesing information they will know location our audio our everything such ignorant people we r.

[last_theorem]

This is preciously why internet never evolved in India, think about a case if internet was evolving in India . These gov authorities simply cant acknowledge the basic idea of privacy and encryption.

[Invisible-nb]

Why Whatsapp provide private info to Govt ... ?

[narasimhamkanamarlapudi]

Government should have the right to find out the criminals, antinationals and terrorists.WhatsApp should constitute a separate wing in India for this purpose.

[narasimhamkanamarlapudi]

WhatsApp is wasting our time here in India.Better it leaves India.