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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It seems like Facebook-owned popular messaging service WhatsApp is blocking links to rival messaging applications – at least <b>Telegram app </b>for now.</span></div>
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Telegram users are noticing that WhatsApp is blocking any links to the privacy-oriented messaging service Telegram.me.</span></div>
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Although users are free to send or receive Telegram links on WhatsApp, 
the links appear as non-clickable that you cannot copy or forward.</span></div>
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This strange behavior was first <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/3utvyq/whatsapp_playing_low_really_low_cant_clickcopy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">noticed</a> this morning by Telegram users over on Reddit.</span></div>
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The URLs – which are generally automatically made clickable – still 
appeared as plain text messages, but they didn't register as hyperlinks,
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In general, this odd behavior is done with malicious URLs such as malware or spam.</div>
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However, this strange behavior was not exhibited on every device. Only 
WhatsApp for Android is currently showing this behavior while Telegram 
URLs still work fine on the iOS version of WhatsApp.</div>
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This issue only began appearing in <b>WhatsApp Version 2.12.327</b>, a silent update pushed earlier this morning.</div>
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Telegram has <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2015/11/30/9819460/whatsapp-telegram-link-block-copy-paste" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">confirmed</a>
 the situation to The Verge that the Facebook, who owned WhatsApp, is 
indeed responsible for the issue, as the social network has used this 
link-blocking trick in the newsfeed and Messenger app before to prevent 
its users from visiting Torrent websites.</div>
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<i>"Typically after a media backlash, FB steps back and blames their intelligent filtering for the problem," </i>said a Telegram spokesperson.<i> "We expect the same to happen this time as well."</i></blockquote>
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However, Facebook and WhatsApp are yet to comment on the issue. The 
popular messaging app has not even acknowledged that a new update was 
pushed this morning</div>
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While the Indian people continue to struggle for Net Neutrality, a new problem surrounded them with the release of the latest policy for ‘<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">National Encryption Policy</u></b>’ by the Indian Government.</div>
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If you delete your WhatsApp Messages or Emails that you receive or send before 90 days, it might be a crime and you can End-up In Jail.</div>
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If the new National Encryption Policy implements that come up with weird suggestions — one should not delete WhatsApp conversation, Gmail or any email for 90 days, it would be an Internet Disaster.</div>
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With the aim to ‘provide confidentiality of information’ and ensure ‘protection of sensitive or proprietary information’, the draft policy, proposed by an so-called ‘<i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">expert panel</i>’ from the <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Department of Electronics and Information Technology (<a href="http://deity.gov.in/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #3d5a99; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">DeitY</a>)</i>, requires:</div>
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The government wants to have access to all your encrypted information including your personal emails, text and voice messages, and data stored in a private business server.</div>
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The Policy will enforce Internet users to save all encrypted communication data in plaintext for at least 90 days, which includes: WhatsApp messages, emails, sensitive banking or e-commerce transactions details.</div>
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National Encryption Policy also want Indian Internet Users to give up their encryption keys to the Government and Security Agencies.</div>
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In India, More than 80% of Internet users are addicted to Non-Indian services like WhatsApp, Facebook, Gmail, Skype, Telegram and thousands more.</div>
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But, the National Encryption Policy requires Service Providers located outside India to enter into an agreement with the Indian Government, which says:</div>
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The draft National Encryption policy has triggered national outrage among citizens of India that are forced to store their online messages send through WhatsApp, SMS, e-mail or any such service for up to 90 days.</div>
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Now Let’s see what the government decides.</div>
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