Govt plans on tracking every spam message with this new system, Check out!

The Indian government has now urged the Delhi High court to prevent the Facebook-owned company from setting its new privacy policy and terms of service.

WhatsApp has yet again mounted heavy criticism as the Indian government has reportedly asked the Facebook-owned messaging platform to introduce an alpha-numeric hash assigning system for every message.

Being the popular messaging platform comes at a cost, and WhatsApp has been the epicentre of spam messages. The Indian government has now, flagged concerns about the misleading information spread through WhatsApp.

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In retrospect, the leading government executives and WhatsApp officials had been engaged in a dialogue to trace the origin of spam messages. However, the Facebook-owned company failed to budge because of the end-to-end encryption.

According to the recent reports, the government has now urged the Delhi High court to prevent the Facebook-owned company from setting its new privacy policy and terms of service which are scheduled to come into effect from May 15.

In simple terms, the alpha-numeric hash can travel with the message and can be traced back to the original sender in case of any unlawful activity, said the government officials, quoted by ET.

The recent move aims at removing the false messages that are often forwarded/delivered through WhatsApp, making it difficult for the government to trace the genesis of a spam message.

If implemented, WhatsApp plans on generating a unique system, every message sent on the platform will generate a unique hash key containing letters from A to Z and numbers from 0 to 9. For example, if you send a message on WhatsApp, it will have an alpha-numeric hash key of ‘1a2b3c,’ suggests TelecomTalk.

‘Hash Keys’ are unique for every message and it allows the company to trace the origins and WhatsApp will also not break the encryption technology.