New Delhi: In relation to the new privacy policy, the Supreme Court has sent a notice to Facebook and Whatsapp, seeking a reply. The Supreme Court told WhatsApp and Facebook that people’s privacy is very important. You may be a two to three trillion company, but people fear that their data is being sold elsewhere. It is our duty to protect the privacy of the people.
A public interest litigation has stated that the new privacy policy of WhatsApp and Facebook is violating people’s privacy and data is being leaked. It has been alleged that WhatsApp and Facebook have different criteria for Europe and there are different rules for India, this is not true. The Supreme Court has summoned the reply from both companies.
It is worth noting that CAT National President Shri BC Bhartia and National General Secretary Shri Praveen Khandelwal alleged that WhatsApp has adopted the view of ‘My Way or High Way’ which is arbitrary, unfair, unconstitutional. It cannot be accepted in a democratic country like India. WhatsApp is fraudulently collecting personal user data. At the time of its launch in India, WhatsApp attracted users based on a promise not to share data and strong privacy principles.
Changes were also made in 2014
It was only in 2014, after Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp, that users began to doubt the confidentiality of their data. Because he feared that his personal data would be shared with Facebook. At that time, WhatsApp promised that nothing would change in the privacy policy after the takeover. However, in August 2016, WhatsApp backed out of its promise and introduced a new privacy policy in which it severely compromised the rights of its users and completely undermined the privacy rights of users.
Use of data for commercial advertising and marketing
Under the new privacy policy, it shared personal data with Facebook and all of its group companies for commercial advertising and marketing. Since then the company has been changing its policies so that a wide range of information can be collected and processed, and data can be passed on to third parties.
