Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

After Outrage, India Rethinks Draconian Social Media Policy

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The Indian government backtracked Tuesday on a proposed requirement for all messages sent on social media and mobile chatting apps to be saved for several months as a way of defeating encryption technology. The proposed law stipulated that all social media users would have to save plain-text versions of messages for 90 days. Services such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Viber and Google Chat encrypt messages as they are sent between users. There was widespread outrage online over the...

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