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India likely to force Facebook, WhatsApp to identify the originator of messages

January 20, 2020

New Delhi is inching closer to recommending regulations that would require social media companies and instant messaging app providers to help law enforcement agencies identify users who have posted content — or sent messages — it deems questionable, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. From TechCrunch

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