WhatsApp and the Indian government’s recent tug-of-war has taken another turn. The Facebook-owned company has now filed a legal complaint against the Indian government in a bid to declare its new social media laws unconstitutional. Notably, this law doesn’t just affect WhatsApp, but every other social media and messaging firm, too. WhatsApp’s push back against the Indian government comes after it announced controversial changes to its own privacy policy. Nevertheless, WhatsApp believes the Indian government’s new laws could “lead to real abuse,” it told Axios in a statement.

Source: The Nation May 26, 2021 06:00 UTC