{"id":43650,"date":"2016-06-30T03:16:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T21:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=43650"},"modified":"2016-06-30T03:16:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T21:46:37","slug":"sc-junks-plea-ban-whatsapp-msg-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-junks-plea-ban-whatsapp-msg-apps","title":{"rendered":"SC junks plea for ban on Whatsapp, other msg Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43651\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Whatsapp.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"43651\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-junks-plea-ban-whatsapp-msg-apps\/whatsapp-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Whatsapp.jpg?fit=937%2C492&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"937,492\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Whatsapp\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Whatsapp.jpg?fit=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Whatsapp.jpg?fit=640%2C336&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-43651 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Whatsapp.jpg?resize=300%2C158&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SC junks plea for ban on Whatsapp, other msg Apps\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Whatsapp.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Whatsapp.jpg?resize=768%2C403&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/06\/Whatsapp.jpg?w=937&amp;ssl=1 937w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SC junks plea for ban on Whatsapp, other msg Apps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea seeking ban on WhatsApp and other communication applications on security grounds and claiming that these services violated the law.<\/p>\n<p>The bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur and A M Khanwilkar, however, granted liberty to the petitioner to approach appropriate authority in the government with his grievances.<\/p>\n<p>It said the petitioner could also approach Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) with his plea.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing the bench did not go into the submissions that the message service applications like WhatsApp&#8217;s end-to-end encryption feature poses a security risk to the country.<\/p>\n<p>Petitioner Sudhir Yadav appearing in person said these messenger services violated the provisions of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, and Information Technology Act, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Other than WhatsApp, the petitioner had also named over dozen other messaging platforms like Hike, Viber, Signal, Telegram and Secure chat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even if WhatsApp was asked to break through an individual&#8217;s message to hand over the data to the government, it too would fail as it does not have the decryption keys either,&#8221; the petitioner said.<\/p>\n<p>In his petition, Yadav said that terrorists and criminals could easily communicate on WhatsApp and make plans which are impossible to access even by supercomputers as decrypting a single 256-bit encrypted message would take hundreds of years.<\/p>\n<p>In an update in April, WhatsApp introuduced 256-bit encryption for all its users. In his petition, he said that this was similar to what the government had insisted vis-a-vis Blackberry as well.<\/p>\n<p>( Source &#8211; PTI )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court today dismissed a plea seeking ban on WhatsApp and other communication applications on security grounds and claiming that these services violated the law. The bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur and A M Khanwilkar, however, granted liberty to the petitioner to approach appropriate authority in the government with his grievances. 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