The Ministry of Communications and IT has stated that it has not yet decided whether servers of popular websites such as Facebook and Twitter should be set up in India. However, the Ministry has also stated that it regularly interacts with the companies offering social networking services to resolve issues relating to handling of unlawful content on the internet.

According to the government, security agencies face difficulty while dealing with encrypted communications provided by various service providers such as WhatsApp, Viber, WeChat, Skype, Yahoo and Gmail. At times, these services may also used by anti-national and criminal elements, which pose a security threat. The government has, therefore, mandated all the telecom service providers including internet service providers to provide lawful interception and monitoring facilities to the security agencies for all the services including WhatsApp, Viber and so on. While security agencies are able to intercept these encrypted communication services through the lawful interception facilities provided by the telecom operators, they are not able to decrypt some of encrypted intercepted communication to readable format.