As nations around the world continue to seek access to encrypted communications, the Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp sued the Indian government this week to challenge new rules requiring that apps be able to trace the “first originator” of messages. Creating such a capability would undermine WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption protections, potentially impacting the privacy and security of not just its more than 400 million users in India, but billions more worldwide.

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