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Even if they release their server side source code how can you ensure that the deployed version matches the source ? Eventually there is always a thread of trust.

The point however is that the government of India is forcing private corporations to break privacy related measures to suppress civil liberties.

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You could host software yourself and communicate within your circle only. It seems like this may be the future - someone just has to make it easy for people to create groups that will deploy the server and generate the app. But that would be a matter of time when governments will start to regulate hosting providers and e.g. banning hosting of communication servers.

So elected govs should listen to corporations. no thanks. i can over throw my gov but not evil facebook

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