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Free speech has been guaranteed by the Constitution, but this right has been violated by a series of arrests made across the country for posting content on social media platforms like facebook and WhatsApp which embarrasses the ruling establishment. Though the UPA era section 66A of the IT Act which was broadly worded enough to book you if you caused annoyance, inconvenience, insult or injury online has been scrapped by the supreme court indiscriminate social media arrests are cramping speech and debate.
According to a report on Times of India, in 2012 and 2013, a girl from Palghar, Maharashtra was arrested for criticizing Bal Thackeray’s state funeral and another girl was arrested for liking the comment. In another incident a 18-year old Zakir Ali Tyagi was put behind the bars for 42 days for asking how River Ganga was a living entity, and he went on to discuss BJP’s plans of building Ram Mandir. He was booked under section 420 of the IPC and Section 66A of the IT Act. He was brutally beaten by the police and labeled as a terrorist. After released from the jail he lost his job in the steel Plant.
On November 2nd this year, another person named Afghan Soni, a Meerut based Journalist was charged with defamation and “computer-related offences” (Section 66 of the IT Act) for posting a derogatory video of Narendra Modi. What was the “offensive” video? Modi asking a rally about ” achhe din “, and getting his response not from a crowd of people, but a herd of goats.
These arrests are not new and such instances reveal that, more than political dispensation, this is about the misplaced zeal of the criminal justice system, its general disregard for free speech, and its hypersensitivity to speech that irritates the political establishment.
N Ramachandran, a former DGP and president of the Indian Police Foundation,says that  “But the real problem is the misuse of these legal provisions by police officials going overboard,”  and also says that “Rather than rushing to arrest, the police should weigh the culpability and potential impact impartially, with utmost caution.”
The morphing of images may be a concern when women are misrepresented, but “by itself, a morphed image in a political caricature or piece of satire is not an illegal or criminal act”, says lawyer and internet freedom advocate Apar Gupta.
WhatsApp is where these tensions are strongest. Increasingly, WhatsApp administrators have been booked even for harmless remarks. “There’s a trend of using Section 144 of the CrPC, which applies to unlawful assemblies, to WhatsApp discussions,” says Gupta.
The Indore collector invoked section 144 of the CrPC to deter any conversation about demonetisation, and the Varanasi DM said that any false content on a WhatsApp group was grounds for arrest. “This is a threat, rather than a fair legal warning,” says Apar Gupta.
These charges do not hold in a court of law but the person has to face difficulties and deal with the harassment. These arrests are symptomatic of invasion of free speech in sibal’s view, a lawyer. He also says that  “Look at the way everyone is outraging about the movie Padmavati without anyone having seen it. It’s the same with the trigger-happy criminal justice system.”
The likelihood of these legal constraints makes us to be careful about the words we use on social media.
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How a WhatsApp message can land you behind bars. Know the Details

HIGHLIGHTS

  • WhatsApp "Delete for Everyone" can be thwarted
  • The new method requires third-party app, or stock widgets
  • The deleted messages can be accessed via notification log

WhatsApp, one of the most widely used instant messaging apps, rolled out "Delete for Everyone" featurerecently. But do deleted messages really disappear from the phone? A new report claims that WhatsAppmessages that are deleted are actually still on the device and can be easily accessed.
Spanish Android blog Android Jefe has claimed that deleted messagesare present in the notification log of the device. It adds that the recipient can easily access the deleted messages regardless whether it has been deleted from sender's end. "What we found is that the messages are stored in the notification register of the Android system. So, it's just a matter of entering that record to see the messages that the other person deleted," the blog said.

How to read deleted WhatsApp messages someone sent you

  1. The blog explains that anyone can access deleted WhatsApp messages sent to them via a third-party app named Notification History which can be downloaded via Google Play.
  2. After downloading the app, users will have to search the message in the Android notification log. Those users who are using third-party launchers like Nova Launcher it's even easier.
  3. The notification log can be accessed without the need of an additional app. Long press the home screen, then tap on Widgets > Activities > Settings > Notification log. You can then access the system's notification log.
  4. On stock Android, a Settings widget can give access to the notification log as well.
Gadgets 360 tried both the Notification History third-party app and the Activities method described above and discovered that the trick worked on an Android device. There are a few limitations, however, as only the messages that have generated a notification on the device, and have been seen or interacted with, can be retrieved. In this case, interaction also refers to swiping away the original notification, whether in the notification bar or a floating message - in which case you've also probably seen at least a part of the original message when swiping away. The notification log only saves the messages on the device until it's restarted. Once restarted, we noticed that the log was cleared.
Moreover, the method has a restriction that only the first 100 characters of the deleted message will be visible. The feature is available only for users running Android 7.0 and above. Users can only retrieve text which means any kind of media file cannot be recovered.
This is not the first time that reports of retrieving deleted messages have surfaced. Jonathan Zdziarski, iOS expert, last year has claimed that WhatsApp saved chat logs on the device despite it being archived or deleted. Of course, if you've swiped away or seen a message - which is what's required in the case of Android Jefe's notification log exploit - the ability to read it later after it's been deleted is not really a loophole.
One of the biggest use cases of the Delete for Everyone feature has been when a user send a message to the wrong chat, or if the message sent contains a mistake. It is the latest feature added to WhatsApp in a long list of features introduced this year, and is biggest change to the chat app since blue ticks aka send receipts.

How to Read a Deleted WhatsApp Message Someone Sent You

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