Karia told the Court today that this provision would require WhatsApp to store millions and millions of messages for a number of years, requirement that exists nowhere else in the world.
“We will have to keep a complete chain and we don’t know which messages will be asked to be decrypted. It means millions and millions of messages will have to be stored for a number of years,” he said.
He further stressed that the Rule under challenge goes beyond the parent Information Technology Act, which does not provide for breaking of encryption.
The Bench queried if a similar law exists anywhere else in the world.
“Have these matters been taken up anywhere in the world? You have never been asked to share the information anywhere in the world? Even in South America?”
Karia replied,
“No, not even in Brazil.”
Source: Barandbench
