<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to entertain a PIL seeking direction to the Centre to ban WhatsApp and other such mobile messenger services for introducing encryption code, that poses a serious threat to the country’s security.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice A M Khanwilkar suggested Gurugram-based RTI activist Sudhir Yadav to approach the government or the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) with his plea.<br /><br />Arguing for himself, Yadav claimed that in response to his RTI application with Department of Telecommunication, the government said it possessed no information in this regard.<br /><br />He contended the end-to-end 256-bit encryption introduced by WhatsApp in April made it impossible to decrypt messages, chat, call, video, images and documents.</p>
<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to entertain a PIL seeking direction to the Centre to ban WhatsApp and other such mobile messenger services for introducing encryption code, that poses a serious threat to the country’s security.<br /><br /></p>.<p>A bench of Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justice A M Khanwilkar suggested Gurugram-based RTI activist Sudhir Yadav to approach the government or the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) with his plea.<br /><br />Arguing for himself, Yadav claimed that in response to his RTI application with Department of Telecommunication, the government said it possessed no information in this regard.<br /><br />He contended the end-to-end 256-bit encryption introduced by WhatsApp in April made it impossible to decrypt messages, chat, call, video, images and documents.</p>
