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The end-to-end encryption allows complete privacy to the user and the company has no access to the data, the report said.
Facebook-owned WhatsApp has agreed to meet all demands of the IT ministry, except adding a feature that could help trace origin of a message, reported The Times of India.
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The messenger service told the government that the company has no access to the user data and tampering with that will strike at its key feature - complete privacy to the user, the report said.
The government had asked WhatsApp, which has 1.5 billion active users in India, to set up a local corporate entity and find a technology solution to trace the origin of fake messages circulated through its platform.
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