Govt asks WhatsApp not to impose terms on Indian users

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Govt asks WhatsApp not to impose terms on Indian users
21 January 2021
Union ministry for electronics and information technology has written to WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart, asking the messaging platform to withdraw its proposed update to its privacy policy and terms of service. The new policy, which was supposed to be enforced from 8 February, has been pushed by three months amid backlash.
“The changes to the WhatsApp Privacy Policy and Terms of Service outline the vast amounts and categories of data that is collected by WhatsApp and how it will be shared with other Facebook companies. These changes enable WhatsApp, and other Facebook companies, to make invasive and precise inferences about users which may not be reasonably foreseen or expected by users in the ordinary course of accessing these services,” the letter states.

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