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  There were many security measures in place. Police personnel were deployed to control the protests and there were also farmers who had agreed earlier to help the cops in maintaining peace and order. Sanyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) had also given its assurance that peace and order will be maintained. Routes were also planned where the farmers were supposed to be rallying and protesting. However, despite all of these safety measures and precautions, the protest which began quite peacefully, ended up bitterly with the commission of vandalism by the protesters and violent clashes with the police who at first showed considerable restraint in yesterday’s rally.     There were many security measures in place. Police personnel were deployed to control the protests and there were also farmers who had agreed earlier to help the cops in maintaining peace and order. Sanyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) had also given its assurance that peace and order will be maintained. Routes were also ...

To understand the conundrum that was created by WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, it is important to realize that WhatsApp is broadly used to communicate either with a business or with a user’s personal interests that are not businesses.   The new privacy policies have made no changes whatsoever, in the way the messaging is done in the nature of a personal communication between friends and families, however there are notable changes in the way the communication with a business entity is handled in WhatsApp, what with the new privacy policy in place. The background to the whole idea behind such changes in that regard is to do with the decision of the parent company ‘Facebook’, to integrate its services across all its platforms (including WhatsApp).   WhatsApp in its new privacy policy has clarified that the personal messages that are sent to one another on a consumer basis shall remain end to end encrypted as usual and no such data would be shared with Facebook. It also clarif...