WhatsApp made more than 20 lakh account ban in 1 month, learn why the decision raised

Whatsapp says it banned 2 million accounts between May 15 to June 15, 2021 to prevent harmful activities. In its first transparency report published under the new information technology (Middleman) Guidelines and Digital Media Code of Conduct, 2021, the company revealed that it had banned 20,11,000 accounts over this one month period. FB -owned messaging platform identifies Indian accounts through the +91 country code of the mobile number used for registration. It also states that 25 percent of all the accounts banned in the world are in India alone.

Whatsapp published the first edition of its intermediate guidelines report on Thursday and the company highlighted its own actions to prevent harmful activities. WhatsApp said in its report, “Our special focus is to prevent accounts from sending a large -scale harmful or unwanted messages.” He shared this report on email to Gadgets 360. “We maintain advanced capabilities to identify these accounts that send messages at high or unusual rates and we banned 2 million accounts in India alone alone from 15 May to 15 June, trying to stop such misuse.”

WhatsApp said, “In addition to practical signs from accounts, we rely on the information of an encryption without user reports, profile photos and group photos and details, in addition to implementing advanced AI tools and resources to detect and prevent misuse on our platforms.” According to WhatsApp, he received a total of 70 reports for account support, 204 (out of 63 of which), 20 for other support, 20 for other support, 43 for product support and 8 reports for “security issues”. It states that about 95 percent (or 19 lakh) accounts were made automatically when the service detected “automated bulk messaging” or spam in the service.

It states that the number of accounts banned since 2019 has increased significantly, as “our system refinement has increased, so we are catching more accounts. We also believe that more efforts were made to send bulk or automated messages.” In its report, WhatsApp shared that we have a global average to ban about 8 million accounts per month. It had a fourth of all restrictions in the world (most of which were for bulk messaging or spam) in India.

It is not surprising that India is the largest market for WhatsApp. Estimates of some industries suggest that out of 2 billion active users worldwide, about 400 million are users of India, or about one user from every five of WhatsApp. WhatsApp said that the addition reports after the data transparency report would be published 30-45 days later to get enough time for data collection and verification.