New Delhi: WhatsApp in a petition in Delhi High Court this week stated that enabling identification of the primary originator of data on its platform in India places end-to-end encryption and its advantages in danger, because it urged the courtroom to cross path to declare this requirement extremely vires the IT Act.
The petition by the Facebook-owned prompt messenger has but once more fuelled the raging debate on privateness and encryption.
Meanwhile, social media has been these days flooded with a viral message stating that after the implementation of the brand new IT guidelines, all your WhatsApp calls will likely be recorded and the federal government will monitor the actions aside from all your messages. It can be being claimed within the message that WhatsApp has carried out a brand new tick system – two blue ticks and one pink tick –which can imply that the federal government can take motion, whereas three pink ticks will imply that the federal government has began the courtroom motion respectively.
PIB Fact Check has out rightly rejected all of the above claims in its fact-checked tweet and has warned the customers towards such messages.
एक वायरल मैसेज में दावा किया जा रहा है कि भारत सरकार द्वारा अब ‘नए संचार नियम’ के तहत सोशल मीडिया और फोन कॉल की निगरानी रखी जाएगी।#PIBFactCheck: यह दावा फ़र्ज़ी है।
भारत सरकार द्वारा ऐसा कोई नियम लागू नहीं किया गया है।
ऐसे किसी भी फ़र्ज़ी/अस्पष्ट सूचना को फॉरवर्ड ना करें। pic.twitter.com/mW9LT2W1k4— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) May 27, 2021
How to get messages fact-checked?
If you get any such suspicious message, you may all the time know its authenticity and test if the information is for actual or it’s a faux information. For that, it’s good to ship the message to https://factcheck.pib.gov.in. Alternatively you may ship a WhatsApp message to +918799711259 for truth test. You may ship your message to pibfactcheck@gmail.com. The truth test data can be out there on https://pib.gov.in.
