WhatsApp Banned 76 Lakh Accounts India February 2024 For Policy Violations Heres All Details

Messaging platform WhatsApp banned more than 76 lakh accounts in India in February this year. The Meta-owned platform releases the number of accounts it receives complaints about every month in its special report as well as those which the platform permanently bans for one reason or another. In its latest report, WhatsApp has said that it has banned more than 14.24 lakh accounts ‘proactively’, which means that these accounts were blocked even before any report of policy violation was received from a user.

in compliance with information technology Ongoing WhatsApp monthly payment done Report The platform says it banned 7,628,000 accounts between February 1 and February 29 this year. According to the messaging platform, these were accounts registered with phone numbers with the +91 international prefix. WhatsApp says it proactively banned 1,424,000 accounts out of more than 7.6 million accounts in February without any user complaint. These were accounts that were violating the company’s policies. While WhatsApp allows users to report accounts, the platform also employs an on-platform abuse detection system that can proactively detect policy violations.

As per the existing regulations, WhatsApp receives complaints from users through email sent to grievance_officer_wa@support.whatsapp.com and through mail sent by post to the India Grievance Officer.

In November last year, WhatsApp banned around 71,96,000 accounts. The company banned around 19,54,000 of these accounts without receiving any report of policy violation from the user. Every month the platform bans thousands to lakhs of accounts in this manner. The election process is going on in India, due to which these steps become more important.

Apart from this, let us tell you that WhatsApp introduced the chat lock feature last year to improve security and privacy protection, after which now the social media giant is reportedly looking to extend the chat lock function to linked devices. It is being said that WhatsApp’s upcoming update will bring the feature for linked devices. This update has been seen in WhatsApp’s Android beta v2.24.8.4.