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WhatsApp起诉印度政府,称新的IT规则意味着隐私的终结

WhatsApp已在德里对印度政府提起法律诉讼,后者试图阻止今日生效的社交媒体新规。

Facebook拥有WhatsApp已经对周三生效的印度IT新规提起诉讼。新规定要求像Whatsapp这样的公司“追踪”通过该服务发送的特定消息的来源。此案于5月25日在德里高等法院立案。

该即时通讯服务的一位发言人表示:“要求通讯应用程序‘追踪’聊天记录,就相当于要求我们为WhatsApp上发送的每条消息保留指纹,这将打破端到端加密,从根本上损害人们的隐私权。”

该公司一直与世界各地的公民社会和专家一道,反对侵犯用户隐私的要求。它补充说:“与此同时,我们还将继续与印度政府就旨在保护人民安全的实际解决方案进行接触,包括回应对我们可用信息的有效法律请求。”

ET周二报道称,Facebook、WhatsApp等社交媒体平台谷歌和推特面临着失去“中介”地位的风险,如果不遵守修订后的规定,它们可能会被追究刑事责任。

以遵守IT规则为目标,努力实施运营流程:Facebook

Facebook周二表示,它正在努力实施运营流程,并旨在遵守5月26日生效的it规则的规定。

谷歌和脸书周二表示,他们正试图遵守新规定。

印度将500万注册用户作为定义重要社交媒体中介的门槛。它已指示任命一名常驻申诉官、首席合规官和节点联系人,并在其网站上公布这些高管的详细信息,以及实际联系地址。新规则还规定了消息发送者的可追溯性,并规定自愿验证作为确定用户身份的一种手段。

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Facebook owned WhatsApp<\/a> has filed in a case against the new Indian IT Rules that come into effect from Wednesday. The Rules require firms like Whatsapp to \u201ctrace\u201d the origin of particular messages sent on the service. The case was filed in the Delhi High Court on 25 May.

A Spokesperson for the instant messaging service said \u201cRequiring messaging apps to \u201ctrace\u201d chats is the equivalent of asking us to keep a fingerprint of every single message sent on WhatsApp, which would break end-to-end encryption and fundamentally undermines people\u2019s right to privacy.\"

The company has consistently joined civil society and experts around the world in opposing requirements that would violate the privacy of its users. \"In the meantime, we will also continue to engage with the Government of India on practical solutions aimed at keeping people safe, including responding to valid legal requests for the information available to us,\u201d it added.