A Writ Petition has been filed in the Supreme Court against the new and updated privacy of WhatsApp, a messaging application owned by Facebook.The Petition filed by <b>Confederation of All India Traders</b> s.
Indian trade union files petition against WhatsApp and Facebook for arbitrary privacy policy
As per CAIT, WhatsApp has been fraudulently collecting personal user data. January 17, 2021 / 08:48 AM IST
The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has filed a petition in the Supreme Court that urges messaging app WhatsApp, as well as its parent company Facebook to withdraw its new privacy policy.
As per CAIT, WhatsApp has been fraudulently collecting personal user data. The CAIT will not allow any Corporate or Conglomerate to enforce its obnoxious policies and sinister designs to make a profit in an unethical manner resting the gun on the shoulder of people of India, it said in a statement.
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As per a Times of India
report, the Indian government has started examining the controversy surrounding WhatsApp’s new update. “We are collecting details,” said an official source. The issue is reportedly being discussed at the highest levels of the IT ministry.
As per the source, the government is concerned about the ‘regulatory vacuum’ in terms of data protection in India as there is no data protection law at present. A bill for a
personal data protection law in the Parliament but it is likely to take some time before becoming a law. Also, the privacy update sought by WhatsApp in user agreement in European Union is seen as lenient while in India it is wide-ranging and may have terms that may potentially harm user privacy, the official source added.