Tag: Privacy Policy
WhatsApp on Monday said it has sent a reply to the notice by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) after the ministry directed the Facebook-owned platform to withdraw its controversial user privacy policy. ....
With WhatsApp filing a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court stating that requiring messaging apps to "trace" chats undermines people's right to privacy, even as the deadline to comply with the new IT (intermediary) rules, 2021, for big social media platforms in India ended on Tuesday, legal experts say the new measures should not be seen as a "blanket web" for getting information of all originators of all messages sent by all users. ....
People have grave apprehensions on loss of privacy, the Supreme Court said on Monday and made it clear that it is the court's duty to protect people's privacy as it was hearing an application against the new privacy policy of WhatsApp. ....
A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking an interim stay on the operation of new privacy policy of WhatsApp, the applicaton with more than 400 million users in the country. ....
A policy will be set up to build data centre parks throughout the country, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said during her second Union Budget presentation in Parliament on Saturday.....
Airtel's privacy policy statement has been updated after a controversy over sexual orientation being part of the personal information that can be accessed.....
A single judge bench of the Delhi High Court on Friday recused from hearing a petition against the Facebook-owned instant messaging application, WhatsApp's upcoming data and privacy policy, on the grounds that it violates the right to privacy of citizens of India. ....
While hearing a petition seeking direction for an injunction against the updated privacy policy by WhatsApp, the Delhi High Court on Monday emphasized that downloading the application is not mandatory and a person can choose not to download it. ....
The trend of multiple messaging app usage is picking up in India and Telegram is the frontrunner, having wooed a massive 42.9 per cent new users from WhatsApp in the past three years, a new survey said on Wednesday. ....