Protected by end-to-end.

"The UK's Investigatory Powers Act 2016," "not only lets the government demand that companies give them special access points to user data," but these demands "come with a gag order for companies who get them." However, Apple "found subtle ways of making it public, stopping all end-to-end encryption for British customers of iCloud and by challenging the order in court." The British government has dropped the demand for a backdoor. Mint. Indians have no constitutional right to privacy and our Supreme Court has vacillated between human rights of citizens and powers of the state to violate privacy "in the interest of preventing crime, maintaining public order, protecting public health or morals, or safeguarding the rights and freedoms of others." juriscentre.com. So vague that the state can violate our freedoms with complete impunity. In June, an officer of the Indian Navy said in Indonesia that India lost fighter planes in Operation Sindoor because of "restrictions imposed by the government on striking Pakistani military establishments and the orders were to hit only terror infrastructure in that country." HT. Earlier this month, Assam Police filed a case of sedition against two journalists of The Wire for reporting these same comments. DH. The Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill of 2022 allows the police to forcibly collect biometric data of anyone arrested or detained and hold this data for 75 years. BBC. "India, which has topped the global list for six consecutive years, recorded 84 internet shutdowns in 2024, the highest among Democratic nations." India Today. In January, Inspector Jitendra Shahane asked Elon Musk's social media platform, X, to take down a post from 2023 which "described a senior ruling-party politician as 'useless'." "The post, which remains online, is among hundreds cited by X in a lawsuit it filed in March against India's government, challenging a sweeping crackdown on social media content by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration." "X argues India's actions are illegal and unconstitutional, and that they trample free speech by empowering scores of government agencies and thousands of police to suppress legitimate criticism of public officials." Reuters. Elon Musk is too powerful to touch. WhatsApp, which is a part of Meta, has launched front-page advertisements in India asserting that its end-to-end encryption means that even its staff cannot read messages on its platform. Impact. Meta is an American company. Only human beings have a need for privacy, animals do not. By denying us the right to privacy the Indian government equates Indian citizens with animals and so it is indifferent to loss of lives due to weather every year. Since 20 June, 303 people have lost their lives in Himachal Pradesh because of heavy rains. NDTV. Heavy rains are common and we have an efficient Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) (wikipedia) with fairly accurate short-term predictions. Still, every year people die. Animals - no privacy, no life.