WhatsApp has just filed a lawsuit against the Indian government to protect the privacy of your messages, because their new regulation would break the concept of end-to-end encryption, implemented on WhatsApp for Android and iOS. WhatsApp said that the new regulation requires them to make all messages traceable, in order to understand who is the real sender of a specific message. The Indian government has threatened to ban Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp if they don’t respect the new rules, that WhatsApp considers unconstitutional.

The concept of traceability completely breaks end-to-end encryption, because this would require WhatsApp to understand who sent a particular message to who, logging billions of messages every day. WhatsApp cannot identify a single message without tracing any other message.

This concept totally violates all human rights, because the government would be able to see who shared a specific content on WhatsApp, triggering lawsuits and censorship.