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WhatsApp sues Indian government to protect users’ privacy rights

By Freny Patel
  • 26 May 2021 07:42
  • 26 May 2021 07:42
WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court challenging new Indian intermediary rules that would require the US messaging app to provide access to encrypted messages, thereby violating users' privacy, MLex has learned.
The Facebook-owned company lodged its suit against the Indian government late yesterday, on the eve

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Freny Patel

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Freny has been covering antitrust law, M&A and regulations for over a decade, serving as Asia editor at Policy and Regulatory Report. Prior to joining as an editor at Mergermarket, she headed the banking bureau of a leading Indian financial daily, Business Standard. When India privatized the insurance sector, she had her own column in The Observer.

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