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Deepti Sri · · 1 min readIndian gov’t urges court to stop WhatsApp from implementing privacy policy
“India’s federal government has urged a Delhi court to restrain Facebook’s WhatsApp from implementing a controversial privacy policy, intensifying pressure on the popular messaging service in its biggest market by users,” reported Bloomberg.
Details:
- The Indian government said in a filing to the Delhi High Court that WhatsApp’s privacy policy violates several technological laws.
- It added that the new privacy policy reportedly doesn’t specify the nature of data that WhatsApp will gather from users, who also won’t be notified about the kind of information that will be collected.
Context:
- The development comes after WhatsApp users got an alert in January informing them of a new privacy policy. Part of the notification stated that the messaging app has reserved the rights to share some user data with Facebook.
- WhatsApp received severe pushback from Indian users, prompting the Indian government to demand that the company to withdraw any change in its privacy policy for users in the country.
Editing by Collin Furtado
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