WhatsApp he has an extremely big problem in front of him that could change the application as we know it at the moment, and this is because until now he has not found a solution to bring things back to normal. We are talking about the problems that WhatsApp has in India because of fake news, and the people who keep getting killed because of them, the local government putting extremely high pressure on the company to take measures to solve the dramatic situation.
WhatsApp is being pressured by the local government to abandon the communication encryption system so that people who distribute fake messages on the platform can be identified by the government. India wants WhatsApp to detect who is the person who first publishes a fake news on the platform, in order to be able to arrest him and hold him accountable for the possible crimes that are committed because of the false information that is shared on the platform.
WhatsApp: THE BIG PROBLEM that could CHANGE the Application
WhatsApp stated that it cannot eliminate the communication encryption system, as neither Apple nor Google did, but it could be forced to store this data on servers in India. India also requires the association of messages, and of WhatsApp users, with unique IDs, which in the case of an investigation would allow the identification of the person who sent messages on the platform, and this would require quite important changes for the application and the platform.
"It is not clear how popular messaging service WhatsApp is going to deal with the government's latest directive that, even if it cannot proactively stop rumors from being spread using its app, it can at least help trace the original sender of a message, along with those that have forwarded it if need be. In this case, the argument being made by the government is that, say, a person is arrested in a lynching case and a WhatsApp message is recovered from his phone, the message will have a unique ID and, even without decrypting the message, WhatsApp can trace where the message originated from after analyzing the meta-data."
WhatsApp is willing to do a lot to continue to have the hundreds of millions of Indians who are active monthly on the platform, and it would not be difficult for me to believe that they could give up the encryption system. Unfortunately for us, WhatsApp always works only for its own good, so it remains to be seen to what extent the Indians will succeed in what the Americans could not, i.e. to bring to its knees a large company with billions of users worldwide.