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WhatsApp yesterday(25th May 2021) filed a legal challenge against the Indian government, protesting before the Delhi High Court's new IT rules that would require messaging services to trace the origin of particular messages. “Requiring messaging apps to “trace” 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’s right to privacy," said a WhatsApp spokesperson. "We have consistently joined civil society and experts around the world in opposing requirements that would violate the privacy of our 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,” said the spokesperson. Read more

WhatsApp pay owned by Facebook Mr. Zuckerberg can go live from Nov 5th using the homegrown, multibank Unified Payments Interface, its operator the National Payments Corporation of India said in a statement Thursday. While introducing a 30 per cent cap on the number of UPI transactions that can be processed by third-party apps like Google Pay, PhonePe and others. Also, payments are available now in 10 Indian regional language versions of the platform. The two decisions have the potential to change India’s digital payments landscape. While WhatsApp, which had one million people using its beta app, can extend the payments service to another 19 million users, the 30 per cent cap will provide a level playing field and prevent a monopoly from getting created on the UPI space. Read more