Whatsapp announced an update to its privacy policy on January 2021 deepening its integration with Facebook especially in the realm of business messaging features.
In the social media privacy case, the Center requested the Delhi High Court said, WhatsApp should be stopped from implementing the new policy … Review of the proposed policy changes.
With WhatsApp and Twitter’s questionable policies, there is a likelihood of customers shifting to block chain technology. This is used in Bitcoins and could give better privacy protection due to its encryption technology.
The ASG said to the Court that the central government has taken a strong note of the New Privacy Policy of WhatsApp, which is giving differential treatment to its Indian users and is a cause of concern for the government.
The Justice BN Srikrishna Committee drafted a tough data protection law in 2018. It included the right to confirmation and access and data portability. Why has it been hanging fire since then?
The petition has been filed by Chaitanya Rohilla alleging that the new Privacy Policy brought by WhatsApp is violative of Right to Privacy affirmed by the Supreme Court of India in the Justice KS Puttaswamy and Ors. Vs. Union of India Judgment.
Justice Pratibha Singh sets aside from the bench hearing the petition challenging the new privacy policy of WhatsApp, directed to create a separate bench.
WhatsApp has been a popular messaging app with 400 million users in India out of about 2 billion users worldwide. On the other hand, it has about 68 million users in the US.
The Data Protection Bill has been in the pipeline for a couple of years and it is a mystery when it will become an Act. Justice BN Srikrishna had led the committee that drafted the Personal Data Protection Bill.
In the petition, Viswam had prayed that Indians’ right to privacy should be protected from being misused by “giant corporations” for their “financial ends”.