The Union Government has defended the legal validity of its new IT rule in the Delhi High Court, which requires messaging apps (such as WhatsApp) to track the first initiator of information, and stated that the law authorizes it to expect these entities to create secure networks Space and themselves or assist law enforcement agencies in combating illegal content.

The Union Government stated that Article 87 of the Information Technology Act gives it the power to formulate Article 4(2) of the Intermediary Rules-this provision authorizes important social media intermediaries to identify the first information originating in the legitimate national interest Actors curb the threat of false news, as well as illegal acts involving national security and public order, as well as women and children.

In its affidavit submitted in response to WhatsApp questioning the rules on the grounds of cracking encryption and infringing on the privacy of its users, the union government claimed that platforms that monetize user information for commercial/commercial purposes have no legal right to claim that it protects privacy.

Petitioners (WhatsApp and Facebook) are multi-billion dollar businesses based almost solely on mining, owning, and storing private data of natural persons around the world, and then monetizing them, and cannot claim any representative privacy rights on their behalf. The natural person using the platform stated in the affidavit submitted by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

News Source: The NEWS Minute