WhatsApp Blocked 60% More Accounts In India Than Last Month

WhatsApp, the world's most popular instant messaging platform, banned 37.16 lakh accounts in India in November—a staggering 60% increase compared to the 23.24 lakh accounts it had barred in October. The company revealed this news through its India Monthly Report for November, published under the Information Technology Rules 2021.

These figures demonstrate how seriously WhatsApp takes user safety, deploying proactive measures to protect individuals and ensure that their conversations are kept private and secure against malicious actors seeking to exploit vulnerabilities on their platform for personal gain or other illegal activities like cyberbullying or blackmailing people with their data or messages stored on WhatsApp servers without consent.

The Indian government has been pushing for greater regulation of social media platforms since late 2021 when it proposed changes to its IT rules which would require companies like Facebook-owned WhatsApp to comply with local laws regarding data storage and privacy protection standards within three months time frame or risk being forced into shutting down operations inside India completely if they don't comply by then (which seems unlikely given current progress). 

This could potentially mean more stringent measures taken by companies, such as an increase in bans due to stricter enforcement policies adopted by them as part of these regulations, which could further explain why there was a spike in account bans between October and November last year specifically targeting Indian users only - at least partially speaking - instead of global ones across both periods combined.

The report also revealed that 87% percent of flagged content on Messenger over the same period came from automated systems rather than actual reports made by users themselves, suggesting that AI is proving effective at keeping up with potential threats emerging online quickly enough so as not be overwhelmed — again emphasizing just how important proactive monitoring is when it comes tackling issues related digital security head-on rather than relying too heavily on reactive approaches only after something goes wrong already which can lead too much undesirable.