Whats App assures India of 'prompt action' on tracing of 'rogue' messages

New Delhi: IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday said the gvernment will insist on WhatsApp developing a mechanism to trace origin of messages in cases where the platform is misused by terrorists and 'rogue' elements. Cathcart, who was accompanied by Facebook India Managing Director Ajit Mohan and Facebook Public Policy Director Ankhi Das for the meeting, is learnt to have also met stakeholder in the payments sector during his visit. On WhatsApp's proposed payments service, Prasad noted that the platform is also going into payments service in accordance with the Reserve Bank of India and NPCI requirements. He also asked WhatsApp to participate in India's trillion-dollar digital economy vision and said the company is "welcome to explore India-specific products because of their wide reach". In October last year, WhatsApp had said it had developed a system to store payments-related data in India as part of compliance with the regulator Reserve Bank of India's policy on storing such data locally.