Bengaluru: Madras High Court adjourned the Aadhaar-Social Media linking case to September 19 as the Supreme Court is in the process of hearing Facebook and WhatsApp ’s petition to transfer four similar public interest litigations on such linkage pending before various High courts to the Apex Court.Mukul Rohatgi, Senior Advocate for Facebook sought adjournment till 13 September for the Supreme Court transfer petition to be decided.The Advocate General for the State appeared and opposed the adjournment however the High Court proceeded, adjourning the case to September 19.The original PIL in the Madras High Court was filed by Antony Clement Rubin in July last year seeking interlinking of the Aadhaar database with social media profiles for authentication of identity. The division bench of the Madras High Court since expanded the scope of the public interest litigation to include issues including curbing cybercrime and intermediary liability within the ambit of the legal proceedings.The case is likely to impact WhatsApp, encrypted messaging platform owned by Facebook, as it has consistently resisted the government’s attempts to enable traceability to help law enforcers catch perpetrators of misinformation and rumours on the platform. WhatsApp sees traceability as a violation of user privacy. India is the largest market for WhatsApp, with 400 million people using the messaging application.