WhatsApp Trying To Force Users To Accept New Privacy Policy: Centre To High Court WhatsApp Trying To Force Users To Accept New Privacy Policy: Centre To High Court WhatsApp Privacy Policy: Terming WhatsApp s bombarding of notifications on its customers as an anti-user practice for obtaining trick consent , Centre urged the court to direct WhatsApp to desist from pushing notifications onto existing users with regard to the controversial new privacy policy.
Centre said WhatsApp is trying to force its users to consent to the new privacy policy
New Delhi:
The Centre has told the Delhi High Court that social messaging platform WhatsApp was trying to force its users to consent to the new privacy policy before the Personal Data Protection Bill becomes the law by bombarding them with notifications daily to obtain their consent.
Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad (Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times via GettyImages)
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeITY) has warned messaging application WhatsApp to roll back its new privacy policy, implemented with effect from 15 May, failing to do which it will invite action under the countryâs rules,
Financial Express has reported.
WhatsApp has been given a week to respond to the notice sent on 18 May. Action may be taken against WhatsApp if the government does not receive any satisfactory response.
The government believes that that policy and the manner in which it was introduced subvert the values of information privacy, data security and user choices of Indian users.
IT Ministry Directs WhatsApp To Withdraw New Privacy Policy
The IT ministry believes that the changes and the manner they have been introduced undermine the sacrosanct values of informational privacy, data security and user choice and harms the rights and interests of Indian citizens .
A logo of WhatsApp is pictured on a T-shirt worn by a WhatsApp-Reliance Jio representative during a drive by the two companies to educate users, on the outskirts of Kolkata, India, October 9, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri
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New Delhi: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has directed WhatsApp to withdraw its new privacy policy, according to sources.
Delhi HC dismisses Facebook, WhatsApp pleas against CCI order to probe new privacy policy
Justice Navin Chawla said though it would have been prudent for the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to await the outcome of petitions in the Supreme Court and the Delhi HC against WhatsApp s new privacy policy
PTI | April 23, 2021 | Updated 08:27 IST
The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed pleas by social media platforms, Facebook and WhatsApp, challenging India s competition regulator CCI s order directing a probe into WhatsApp s new privacy policy.
Justice Navin Chawla said though it would have been prudent for the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to await the outcome of petitions in the Supreme Court and the Delhi HC against WhatsApp s new privacy policy, but not doing so would not make the regulator s order perverse or wanting of jurisdiction .