Indian Govt. asked for Digital Fingerprint Traceability of WhatsApp Messages
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Since few last months Whatsapp keep improving and changing its
features for privacy concerns. Indian government has asked whatsapp earlier to
keep eye on the matter of fake news that spreads through their medium and
brought some technique to discard these types of troubles. Recently Indian
government has asked Whatsapp messaging application to ensure traceability of
all matter shared on whatsapp platform.
Indian government
officials reportedly asked that there should be a mechanism to identify where
the message is generated and how many people have read and forwarded it without
having to read the message. As per government officials, “this step is taken by
them because of the cases of misinformation and rumours around child kidnapping
and violent videos on the platform led to series of lynching events across
India since few years”.
To find the origination of the message, Facebook owned
Whatsapp messaging app will have to introduce digital fingerprint on messages without
breaking the encryption. But Whatsapp
has maintained its statement that its end-to-end encryption does not allow the traceability.
Government has notified guidelines in draft amendments of information
technology act in 2018, it requires all the internet platforms to ensure
traceability of the origin of all content shared through them.
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Related Article: No more fake news on WhatsApp
Redesigning Architecture
To introduce traceability of messages, Whatsapp has to
redesign its architecture and create a database of messages shared and attached
them with a unique fingerprint. According to digital rights experts it is not
easy to digitally fingerprint each message. Traceability of messages affects the privacy and safeness of the public data and violence of protection of the private data.
Some countries like Singapore and Australia have passed the law regarding the traceability of fake news on internet plateforms and to give more government control on data by bypaasing the end-to end encryption.
Indian Govt. asked for Digital Fingerprint Traceability of WhatsApp Messages
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