Social media Accounts should be Linked to aadhaar card-Supreme Court

Govt's Top Law Officer Tells SC Social Media Accounts Should be Linked With Aadhaar in 'National Interest'

What is the matter?
Attorney General for India KK Venugopal on Tuesday emphasized in the Supreme Court the need to link Aadhaar with social media accounts in order to trace users in the national interest.

Reason for filling case?
The top law officer submitted before a bench headed by Justice Deepak Gupta that spurt in cybercrimes, use of social media in terror-related activities and inciting violence, pornography, etc require the identity of users to be made known to law enforcement agencies.

Venugopal, who is appearing in the batch of transfer petitions for the Tamil Nadu government, also cited the Blue Whale game to illustrate the dangers of social media.
"We have lost so many lives because of this game. And we still don't know how this game originated and the people behind it. This is a very serious matter," he said.

Case of WhatsApp and Facebook linking already in Many High Court!
Appearing for Facebook and WhatsApp, senior lawyers Mukul Rohatgi and Kapil Sibal contended that the Supreme Court should transfer to itself all the petitions on the issue so that they are not subjected to diverse orders that might be taken by different high courts.

The AG, who also appeared for the central government in a connected matter, was responding to transfer petitions filed by social media giant Facebook, which also owns WhatsApp, in the wake of various petitions on Aadhaar-social media linkage pending across high courts of Bombay, Odisha, and Madras.
Reply from Whatsapp?
WhatsApp also said their messaging involved end-to-end encryption and it was not possible for them to access the content.

Venugopal, on the other hand, maintained that knowing the originator of every single message, especially in criminal cases, is "essential for our survival".

While the AG pressed for letting the high courts decide first, Sibal and Rohatgi said their orders would create more confusion. The bench then formally issued notices to the Centre and also to Google, Twitter, and YouTube on the transfer petitions and fixed the matter for hearing on September 2.