Sri Lanka - Whatsapp Badu Numbers

Your curiosity today could be the evidence against you in court tomorrow.

The same network that hides a dealer in Matara also records the metadata of your chat. While the messages are encrypted, who talks to whom and when is not. Sri Lanka's newly passed now mandates that telecom providers store this metadata for 36 months.

By R. Amarasinghe | Digital Safety Correspondent

In the bustling streets of Colombo, the quiet tea estates of Kandy, and the sandy shores of Bentota, a silent digital revolution is taking place. It doesn’t live on the stock exchange or in parliament. It lives inside the green messaging app on your phone: WhatsApp.