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The government is increasingly Monitoring Whatsapp and Facebook The government is pursuing Facebook-owned WhatsApp to make its messages traceable by adding a digital fingerprint to every message sent, is not helping the cause of privacy. A careful scrutiny of FIRs, charge sheets and summons relating to the Delhi Riots and CAA protests suggests the police has begun to systematically target members of a WhatsApp group called Delhi Protests Support Group. Monitoring Online Activity is also happening. Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules 2021, require intermediaries, including platforms like Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc, to trace tweets, posts and texts back to their source. Provisions like traceability of encrypted content, harsh content take down timelines and automated content filtering are blunt and disproportionate to the intention behind these changes have the potential of tracing the location data too. The new Cyber Crime Volunteers issue also needs to be examined. A concept by the MHA which would involve the volunteers from public who would be acting as a sentinel against the sharing of unlawful content in the digital media platform. Unlawful content includes includes any content against sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of the State, friendly relations with foreign states, public order, communal harmony and child sex abuse. Involving citizens in the process of surveillance is nothing but involving citizens in the law and order of the state since the said volunteers can be anonymous leading to a lack of any checks and balances.