The remarks were made during the High Court's hearing on Thursday

WhatsApp to "exit India" if forced to break encryption IT Rule Act 2021: These days, the whole world is using WhatsApp, including India where there are over 400 million users who are using WhatsApp. Just imagine, what would happen if WhatsApp would shut down its services in India. 

Well, the threat looms large as a lawyer appearing for WhatsApp has informed the Delhi High Court that the Meta-owned messaging platform will have to "exit India" if it was made to break the encryption of messages.

The lawyer further informed the court that people use the platform because of the privacy that it assures and also because messages are end-to-end encrypted.

The remarks were made during the High Court's hearing on Thursday over petitions by WhatsApp and its parent company Facebook Inc, now Meta, challenging the 2021 Information Technology (IT) rules for social media intermediaries that require the messaging app to trace chats and make provisions to identify the first originator of information.

IT Rules, 2021, which were announced by the Centre on February 25, 2021, require large social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to comply with the latest norms.

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