Government of India comes close to recommending regulations requiring social media companies and instant messaging app providers to help law enforcement agencies identify users who post content or send messages - two people familiar with the tech crunch.

India is due to submit its proposed change to the rules of local arbitration to the country's highest court later this month. The proposed changes may change before the conditions are finalized, with law enforcement agencies now saying they must submit court orders before complying with such requests. Information will be given.

The New Delhi-based Policy Advocate told TechCrunch on the condition of anonymity, though such social media companies are asked if such companies are "destructive".

WhatsApp executives have previously insisted on compromising every user's end-to-end encryption to meet such demand - and they are ready to fight.

The government did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday evening. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

Several companies and security experts have asked New Delhi in recent months to be transparent about changes in local arbitration responsibility guidelines.

The Government of India is proposing a series of changes to its Arbitration Liability Regulations at the end of December 2018, which, if implemented, will significantly change the millions of services operated by anyone from small to medium sized businesses to large corporate giants like Facebook. Will have to do. And Google

Under the proposed regulations, intermediaries - the government that facilitates communication between two or more customers and define services or functions as having five million or more customers in India - will have to do other things. With, be able to identify. Promoters of questionable content to avoid being solely responsible for the actions of their users.

At the heart of the changes are the “Safe Harbor” laws that technology companies have experienced so far in most countries. We currently have a law under the Communications Laws Act and the Information Technology Act 2000 in India which states that technology platforms are not responsible for the content shared by their customers.

Several stakeholders have claimed in recent months that the Government of India is keeping them from sharing the changes in the Interim Liability Guidelines.

In a recent interview with TechCrunch, Shashi Tharoor, one of India's most influential opposition politicians, said no one outside the small government circle had seen the proposed changes since January last year.

Software Freedom and Law Center, a New Delhi-based digital advocacy firm, recommended last week that the government should consider eliminating the need to identify any proposed changes to the law because "technology is impossible to satisfy many online brokers."

"No country wants such a wide scale as per the guidelines of the draft arbitrators."