The Centre reviewing the new privacy policy told Delhi court of WhatsApp violating Indian Information Technology (IT) law and rules. The centre concerned fir the Indian users sought of directs to the social media platform to make it clear whether it was confirming the same.
The central government’s claim was made before a bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh. The hearing was for several pleas challenging WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, which according to the platform has come into effect from May 15 and has not been deferred. The most used chatting and sharing application, WhatsApp told the bench that while its new privacy policy has come into effect from May 15, it would not start deleting accounts of those users who have not accepted it but will surely try to encourage them to get on board. The platform said there was no universal or uniform time limit after which it would start to delete accounts as each user would be dealt with on case-to-case basis.
The bench has issued notice to the Centre, Facebook and WhatsApp and have asked their stand on one of the pleas by a lawyer who has claimed that the new policy violates users’ right to privacy under the Constitution. The plea read that it has written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the issue and a reply is awaited. While WhatsApp, opposing the contention, said it was conforming to Indian IT law and rules.
Not only IT laws are getting violated but also a matter of concern that Indian users were being “unilaterally” subjected to the change in privacy policy by the instant messaging platform and that the government was looking into it. The court listed the matter for further hearing on June 3.
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