Govt nudges Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Google again for wider access

Targeted tracking of messages has become even more important for the government after the recent attack at Pulwama

Taking cues from Australia, which passed new decryption laws that allows its security agencies to go through messages on WhatsApp, sources at home affairs ministry said India was planning to make similar changes in the IT Act.
 
“The changes would include the social media firm tracing the origin of the message. This would mean that they would have to let go of end to end encryption, a feature that prevents even the platform from going through any message enhancing privacy of a user. All possible changes in IT Act are being discussed,” an official from the ministry of home