The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered WhatsApp to fully publicize its commitment to the center in 2021, as its users in India are not required to accept the 2021 Privacy Policy in order to use it.
A five-judge constitutional bench headed by Judge KM Joseph asked Whatsapp to place an advertisement in five newspapers to publicize their commitment to the government.
The bench, which also consists of Justices Ajay Rastogi, Aniruddha Bose, Hrishikesh Roy and CT Ravikumar, recorded the filing of the case mobile phone, mobile phone messaging apartment that they will comply with the terms of the letter to the government.
“We are documenting the position taken in the letter (to the government) and we are documenting the submission by WhatsApp’s lead counsel that they will abide by the terms of the letter…until the next hearing date.” We are forwarding that WhatsApp will publicize this aspect to WhatsApp customers twice in five national newspapers,” the bank said.
The Apex Court released the matter for hearing on April 11.
Yesterday, the top court told the center that a new 2022 data protection law would be put before parliament in the second half of the budget session.
The bank heard lawsuits from two students challenging WhatsApp’s 2021 privacy policy to share user data with the parent company Facebook and others is an invasion of their privacy and freedom of expression.
Sibal defended the messaging app’s privacy policy, stating that there are 600 million subscribers in India.
He said no personal messages on the messaging app can ever be read by a person, including WhatsApp, and they are end-to-end encrypted.
Two students – Karmanya Singh Sareen and Shreya Sethi – found that the deal made between the two companies to allow access to calls, photos, texts, videos and documents shared by users is a violation of their privacy and freedom of expression.
