In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: WhatsApp take the Indian government to court over new rules that would force the instant-messaging platform to break their end-to-end encryption; Morrisons plan to extend their partnership with Amazon after sales boom in Q1; and Miniclip acquire UK games studio Supersonic Software and their subsidiary Appynation.
WhatsApp take Indian government over anti-encryption measures
WhatsApp are suing the government of India for introducing new rules that would force them to break their encryption. The Facebook-owned platform argue that the law could reveal the identities of their more than 400 million India-based users, “effectively mandating a new form of mass surveillance.”
At the heart of the case are the recently enacted IT rules, which stipulate that messaging platforms must trace content to the users from whom it was sent. The rules also permit the government to order the removal of any content deemed to violate “decency or morality” or to threaten “national security” and “public order”. Companies who fail to comply could be hit…
