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It turns out to be a bitter and tedious fight. The exchange between the Indian government and the messaging platform about the latter's new privacy policy change doesn't seem to be going anywhere. But soon, something must give. After the Indian government sent a letter to WhatsApp alleging that the messaging platform's new privacy policy violates India's IT rules, the Facebook-owned entity has responded. But his response falls within a typical corporate wave that conveys nothing new. "We have responded to the letter from the Indian government and have assured them that user privacy remains our top priority," WhatsApp said in a statement. It also said that its update did not change the privacy of people's personal messages.
WhatsApp seems to be stuck on a broken stick
As we said, this is something WhatsApp has started to cry about, but no one seems willing to buy their protests. WhatsApp, for what it's worth, added that it won't limit functionality for users who haven't agreed to its new privacy policy. "We will not limit the functionality of WhatsApp to work in the coming weeks. Instead, we will continue to remind users from time to time to update." This clearly shows that WhatsApp cannot go further as it cannot upset the Indian market. With around half a billion people using its services, India is WhatsApp's biggest market and the company has big expansion plans here. But WhatsApp is involved in a legal fight with the Indian government. And its fair trade regulator, the ITC, has also launched a suo motu investigation against WhatsApp. One of the points of contention is WhatsApp's controversial new privacy policy, which allows it to share limited user data with Facebook and its group companies. Furthermore, the Indian government's request to share the origin of the message in case it is fake news is thwarted by WhatsApp claiming that its end-to-end encryption is sacrosanct and cannot be tampered with. More WhatsApp can hardly allow themselves to hold their arms and run the risk of loss on their son plus grand marché, l'Inde, or their competitors like Telegram and Signal, and certain alternatives that ont beaucoup progressed after the fiasco of the confidentiality policy.