>"Plus: A major hack in Japan, Citizen app run amuck, and more of the week's top security [news.AS](http://news.AS) NATIONS AROUND the world continue to seek access to encrypted communications, the Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp sued the Indian government this week to challenge new rules requiring that apps be able to trace the “first originator” of messages. Creating such a capability would undermine WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption protections, potentially impacting the privacy and security of not just its more than 400 million users in India, but billions more worldwide.