{"id":1609,"date":"2021-05-26T08:50:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T06:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/whatsapp-sues-indian-government-over-mass-surveillance-internet-laws\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T08:50:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T06:50:51","slug":"whatsapp-sues-indian-government-over-mass-surveillance-internet-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/whatsapp-sues-indian-government-over-mass-surveillance-internet-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp sues Indian government over \u2018mass surveillance\u2019 internet laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit says controversial new laws are unconstitutional and violate the right to the preservation of privacy<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp has sued the Indian government over new internet laws which the company says will \u201cseverely undermine\u201d the privacy of their users.<\/p>\n<p>The new IT laws, which have been called oppressive and draconian, give the Indian government greater power to monitor online activity, including on encrypted apps like WhatsApp and Signal. They were passed in February but were due to come into effect on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/26\/whatsapp-sues-indian-government-over-mass-surveillance-internet-laws\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/80867eab71977e9d62a11c92dfba8a50c741da40\/0_64_6048_3630\/master\/6048.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ae52f8083687405aaabdddbab38efce9\" title=\"WhatsApp sues Indian government over \u2018mass surveillance\u2019 internet laws\" \/>Lawsuit says controversial new laws are unconstitutional and violate the right to the preservation of privacy<br \/>\nWhatsApp has sued the Indian government over new internet laws which the company says will \u201cseverely undermine\u201d the privacy of their users.<br \/>\nThe new IT laws, which have been called oppressive and draconian, give the Indian government greater power to monitor online activity, including on encrypted apps like WhatsApp and Signal. They were passed in February but were due to come into effect on Wednesday. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit says controversial new laws are unconstitutional and violate the right to the preservation of privacy WhatsApp has sued the Indian government over new internet laws which the company says will \u201cseverely undermine\u201d the privacy of their users. The new IT laws, which have been called oppressive and draconian, give the Indian government greater power &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/26\/whatsapp-sues-indian-government-over-mass-surveillance-internet-laws\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WhatsApp sues Indian government over \u2018mass surveillance\u2019 internet laws<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}