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Communique from ICTA
Further to some press articles, private radio news items and online comments on social media platforms, the ICTA wishes to bring the following clarifications:
The proposal in the Public
Consultation paper on “Proposed amendments to the ICT Act for regulating the use and addressing the abuse and misuse of Social Media in Mauritius” pertains to social media platforms only as clearly spelt out in the paper title itself.As opposed to the rampant fake news propagated by ill-intentioned persons on the web, online messaging applications are not concerned. Online messaging applications such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Threema, Wire, etc present a distinct characteristic, which is end-to-end encryption. This type of encryption is different from the https/TLS encryption described in the Consultation Paper. End-to-end encryption implies that each and every communication between two users of these online messaging applications are encrypted in such a way that nobody in the middle and not even the service provider has the ability to decrypt it.
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