WhatsApp s separate privacy policies for Europe and India raise concerns
While WhatsApp users in India will soon have no other option than sharing their data with Facebook and other group platforms, the messaging app has clarified that its policies on data-sharing remain unchanged for users in Europe.
Ankit Kumar | January 14, 2021 | Updated 10:46 IST
Highlights
WhatsApp rolling out separate privacy and data sharing policies for Europe and India has raised fresh demands for stringent data protection law.
WhatsApp has clarified that its policies on data-sharing remain unchanged for users in Europe.
WhatsApp does not share European Region user data with Facebook for the purpose of the latter using this data to improve its products or ads.
The Personal Data Protection Bill under the Ministry of IT and Telecommunication has entered into the final phase. On the direction of Federal Minister
The government has stepped in following privacy concerns over the Facebook-owned messaging app s new update which gives WhatsApp the right to share user data
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This blogpost discusses the comments prepared by Ikigai Law
with Ms. Arushi Goel (ex-Judge, India and a legal advisor based in
UAE) for the draft Data Protection Regulatory Framework
notified by the Abu Dhabi Global Market in November 2020.
The Abu Dhabi Global Market or ADGM is an international
financial centre and a financial free zone in the UAE. On 19
November 2020, the ADGM invited comments on a draft Data Protection Regulatory Framework
which will replace the ADGM Data Protection Regulations
(
Regulations ) notified in 2015. As per
d. For any other reasonable purposes
12, the reasonable
purposes include whistle blowing, prevention and detection of any
unlawful activity, mergers and acquisition, credit scoring,
recovery of debt etc.
Rights of the Data Principal
The bill also provides for rights
13 that can be
exercised by a data principal such as the right to seek information
regarding the manner or processing activities undertaken by the
data fiduciary with respect of the personal data. The bill also
gives an opportunity to the data principal to correct and erasure
any personal data.
Social Media Intermediaries
The bill defines
14 Social Media intermediaries as
intermediaries which allow 2 or more users to share, upload,