On January 5, a bunch of masked attackers entered the New Delhi-based university and attacked students with rods and destroyed property. The single person bench of Justice Brijesh Sethi asked for data of two particular groups: Unity Against Left and Friends of RSS. Screenshots of these groups — allegedly involved in organizing the attacks — started surfacing hours after the incident. According to Live Law, Google agreed to handover basic subscriber information and data stored on Google Drive. The cloud service is used to store backups of WhatsApp conversations. On the other hand, WhatsApp said they can share basic IP-based information, but it’s impossible to share chat messages as they’re encrypted: Plus, the court has also asked the police to seize phones of all 137 members of these groups as part of the evidence. We’ve asked WhatsApp, Google, and Apple to provide more detail about the order, and what data they will provide to authorities. We’ll update the story if we hear back from them.
