Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has sought a response from the company on the security breach in the world's leading messaging app WhatsApp. The Union minister has asked Facebook-owned company WhatsApp to give its reply on the spying done by the Israeli intelligence agency by 4 November. Let me tell you that yesterday Facebook has announced to sue the Israeli company NSO Group for spying 1,400 users of its owned instant messaging service WhatsApp. According to WhatsApp claims, the Israeli company has spied more than 1,400 high-profile people around the world.

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In its statement, Facebook said that the Israeli company has done this spying to benefit the government and hackers. More than 100 civil society people and journalists of India are among 1,400 high-profile people around the world. The Union Minister asked WhatsApp to answer about the privacy of crores of users in India. Let us tell you that at present there are more than 40 crores WhatsApp users in India. In such a situation, such security breaches are prone to affect millions of users of India in the future.

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In this case, the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting tweeted that the government is very serious about the privacy of Indian citizens. He said in his tweet that government agencies have "well-established protocols for interdiction that include approval and supervision from high-ranking officials in the central and state governments for obvious reasons in the national and national interest."

These are instances of breach of privacy of highly reputed individuals, for personal whims and fancies of a family. 4/4 pic.twitter.com/akeyFJaSXm

— Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) October 31, 2019

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