Deleting WhatsApp Messages Will lead to a crime

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Deleting WhatsApp or Any Instant Messaging App Messages Will Lead to be a Crime
You might soon need to keep a duplicate all messages sent through scrambled informing administrations, for example, WhatsApp (Android adaptation underpins encryption), Google Hangouts or Apple’s iMessage, for 90 days, if the proposed National Encryption Policy is actualized in its present structure. Online organizations too would need to keep your delicate data incorporating passwords in plain content for the same stretch of time, in this manner presenting your data to potential hacking assaults.


The administration has distributed a strategy’s draft record online to look for criticism from residents and associations. It points of interest routines for encryption of information and correspondence utilized by the administration, organizations and natives. Here are a few ramifications for subjects and organizations if the approach is actualized in its present structure.

As per the draft, natives may utilize encryption innovation for capacity and correspondence. Be that as it may, encryption calculations and key sizes will be endorsed by the legislature through Notification every now and then. This implies that the administration will focus the encryption models for all and substances like Google and WhatsApp will need to take after the encryption principles recommended by the Indian government.

What’s strange is that the draft records particular rules for all nationals who use encryption administrations including guidelines that people ought to store in plain content variants of correspondence for 90 days. So this may infer that you’ll need to store your WhatsApp messages for 90 days or face activity on the off chance that requested that repeat.

The strategy likewise says that Service Providers situated inside and outside India, utilizing encryption innovation for giving any kind of administrations in India must go into a concurrence with the legislature for giving such administrations in India. The administration will assign a suitable organization for going into such a concurrence with the administration supplier situated inside and outside India. This implies WhatsApp, Apple and Google will need to consent to arrangements with the Indian government to give administrations in the nation as they utilize encryption innovation. This will make the procedure more bureaucratic and make barricades for application suppliers. In its present frame the strategy could have an inconvenient impact on the security of subjects and open touchy information to potential misuse.
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Jaswinder Singh Baidwan

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After courting controversy over Net neutrality, the Narendra Modi-led NDA government is headed for another showdown with activists on the social media and Internet users over the draft National Encryption Policy which has been put online seeking comments from the stake-holders as well as the public.
The draft document seeks to prescribe the methods of encryption of data and communications used by the government, businesses, and even citizens.
The document has been formulated by an “expert group” set up under the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) which comes under the union Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
“Comments from the public are invited on the draft Policy. You can send your comments by 16/10/2015 to ASA Krishnan, Scientist ‘G’, Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Electronics Niketan, 6, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi: 110003,” says the online notice on the DeitY website.
The policy, put online over the weekend is already facing a major backlash industry experts, Internet watchers and netizens. The policy puts the onus to produce encrypted information when demanded by government agencies on Indian citizens as well as on all online service providers, including instant messaging and e-commerce services that use encryption technology.
This would mean that if you use WhatsApp or Snapchat and regularly delete messages to keep your phone or computer clutter-free, the policy wants you to save all messages for up to 90 days and be able to produce them if asked by the authorities.
While the government says the draft policy aims at enabling a secure environment for both information and transactions in cyberspace for individuals, businesses and government, experts are concerned over privacy and outdated standards prescribed in the policy, among other things, which would actually push the country back into pre-independence days.
The draft National Encryption Policy on Internet security also seeks to control the level of security online apps can build into their products and proposes that digital business save all information in plain text format.
The policy says the encryption algorithms and key sizes will be prescribed by the government through notification from time to time. This means the government will determine the encryption standards for all and entities such as Google and WhatsApp will have to follow the encryption standards prescribed by the Indian government.
 

kit walker

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govt backtracked. it removed the draft after getting initial angry responses from users. The whatsapp twitter and other apps are kept out of scope of policy.
 
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