According to a new report, the Centre expects tech companies won't use encryption as an excuse

 India expects that era agencies will now not use encryption as an excuse to keep up investigations and could play their component in bringing criminals to justice, the pinnacle authorities respectable in India's generation ministry stated on Tuesday.


India in advance this 12 months brought policies that require personal messaging apps including WhatsApp to expose the originator of disinformation while asked, a pass that the Facebook-owned employer says will force it to interrupt give up-to-cease encryption.


"Encryption is a welcome component maximum of the time... (however) whilst it's far essential to come to the help of regulation enforcement companies to carry perpetrators of wrongdoing to justice then we count on that encryption will not be held up as a silly excuse to disclaim that," Ajay Prakash Sawhney, the secretary at India's IT Ministry, speakme on the virtual Global Fintech Fest conference, said.


The secretary did no longer name any messaging app.


His comments come at a time WhatsApp has challenged India's new IT regulations in court pronouncing the rules will cause a "dangerous invasion of privateness" and are "unconstitutional".


WhatsApp did now not respond to a Reuters' request in search of comment on Sawhney's feedback.


The outcome of the court case is prime to WhatsApp's future in India, its largest market with over 500 million customers and in which it's far betting massive on bills and economic services to make bigger its commercial enterprise.


WhatsApp launched payments in India remaining yr and competes with the likes of Ant Group-sponsored Paytm and Walmart's PhonePe for a slice of the country's digital bills market this is expected to grow at an average 27% annual price over five years to attain $95.7 trillion by way of the fiscal year 2024-25.


Separately, WhatsApp's India head Abhijit Bose also participated in the Global Fintech Fest event, where he showcased the organisation's financial inclusion push, inclusive of pensions and coverage, in India.

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