WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court against Indian government seeking to block new regulations forced on the companies over privacy concerns.

The lawsuit, filed by WhatsApp in the Delhi High Court, seeks to block enforceability of the new IT guidelines laid down by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MEITy). 

The rule which is opposed by the social media giant requires the companies to identify the “first originator of information” whenever authorities demand it. The company termed this rule as violation of privacy rights in India’s constitution.

“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,” WhatsApp said in a statement today.

“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 a spokesperson of Facebook.

WhatsApp has more than 400 million users in India, which will be directly affected if the app gets banned. Even though with the last privacy update which saddened the people and masses tried to shift platforms.

Even that could not make a huge dent in the user base.

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