Amid the WhatsAppfeud with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, a latestmessage claims that if you see three red-ticks on your WhatsApp it could be adata breach.
The issue of threered-ticks has appeared after WhatsApp sued the Indian government over its new ‘intermediaryguidelines.’
As per the new message,“Two blue ticks and one red tick means the government can take action against,while three red ticks will mean that the government has started courtproceedings against you.”
However, we wouldlike to clear the air, as the similar forwarded message went viral last yearand the claims were later refuted by the application. The viral that has the ‘forwardedmany times label’ say that once the new rules come into force, all calls andmessages on the application will be recorded and accounts will also bemonitored.
While WhatsApp has challenged the Indiangovernment over the message traceability concerns, it still assures that theapplication is private and end-to-end encrypted which means no third party, be Facebook, WhatsApp, or government could read your messages.
It may be noted herethe message further states that if a user would share a negative message againstthe government or a religious issue, then you would be detained. However, allthe claims made in the message are useless and baseless.
Moreover, the messagealso claims that users' devices will be "connected to the ministrysystem." It further added that WhatsApp has enforced a new tick system, that helps users to identify the messages they are sending are being checked bythe government.
Pertinently, there'shas been no update regarding the tick system policy on WhatsApp. As of now,getting one tick indicates that a message is sent, two ticks mean the messageis delivered and when these two ticks turn blue it means your message has beenread by the user.