In a significant choice, the Delhi High Court on Thursday rejected an attraction from Facebook-owned on the spot messenger WhatsApp’s problem to a Competition Commission of India (CCI) order directing for a probe towards its new privateness coverage.
WhatsApp in its petition had contended that there isn’t any want for CCI must have ordered a probe for its new privateness coverage for the reason that matter was already earlier than the Supreme Court. Facebook had additionally filed an analogous petition difficult the competitors watchdog’s choice for launching a probe in its product WhatsApp.
Earlier, the Centre had knowledgeable the Delhi High Court that WhatsApp’s new privateness coverage violated the 2011 IT Rules.
Meanwhile, after a lot criticism, WhatsApp had put its privateness coverage, after introducing it in January 2021, on maintain until May.
Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) in its written response to the courtroom had stated WhatsApp privateness coverage fails to specify which sorts of delicate private information of customers was being collected.
“Notify the details of personal information collected to the user, provide an option to review or amend the information and withdraw consent retrospectively and guarantee further non-disclosure by third parties including other Facebook companies,” MeitY replied.
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