India Threatens WhatsApp With 'Abetment' Charges For Violence During High-Level Meeting With CEO

In an try to address the concerns of the Indian government regarding the spate of brutal lynchings based on viral hoax letters circulated via WhatsApp, the CEO of the Facebook-owned company, Chris Daniels, met Republic of india's Information technology Government minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad, on Tuesday. According to PTI, the two parties discussed a variety of issues during the meeting, ranging from WhatsApp Payments to the spread of fake messages and revenge porn through the platform.

Speaking to the media after the meeting, Prasad termed the talks as 'productive', and reiterated the government's opinion that the brawl is in WhatsApp'southward court in terms of finding a technological solution to the spiraling violence and revenge porn problems that he described every bit 'sinister developments'.

"I had a productive meeting with Chris Daniels, the CEO of WhatsApp. I complimented him for the awakening, which WhatsApp has led in the entire country… But there are likewise sinister developments like mob lynching and revenge porn. You must notice solutions to these challenges, which are downright criminal and violate Indian laws"

Prasad also threatened WhatsApp with abetment charges if information technology failed to comply with all the demands of the government. He claimed to take fabricated information technology abundantly clear to Daniels that the company will need to fix upwards a corporate entity in India and appoint a grievance officer if information technology has to exist in compliance will Indian cyber laws.

He also doubled downwardly on the government's earlier need that the company should detect a technological solution to trace the origin of simulated messages on its platform. "It does not accept rocket science to locate a bulletin being circulated in hundreds and thousands … y'all must have a mechanism to discover a solution", he said.