As user privacy is a core value, end-to-end encryption is essential to maintaining it.
Additionally, Karia also highlighted that the parent Information Technology Act does not provide for the breaking of encryption.
When the bench questioned whether similar laws existed anywhere else in the world.
Have these matters been taken up anywhere in the world?
You have never been asked to share the information anywhere in the world?
Even in South America?
to which Karia replied, There is no such rule anywhere else in the world.
No, not even in Brazil.
The idea behind the guidelines was to trace the originator of the messages, said Kirtiman.
The Delhi High Court acknowledged that privacy rights are not absolute and that somewhere balance has to be done.
It has adjourned the case for further hearing on August 14.
source: www.techworm.net
