App Privacy Policy

Top court wants Indian users to know that they are under no obligation to accept the platform's 2021 privacy policy in order to be able to use it

According to WhatsApp's monthly user safety report, over 2.3 million Indian accounts were banned in the month of August this year

The apex court cleared the decks for the regulator to further probe and reach finality in the case it initiated in March 2021 against WhatsApp for alleged abuse of dominance

New Data Protection Bill will be introduced in the next session of Parliament: SG

The Delhi High Court has held that WhatsApp's 2021 privacy policy places its users in a take it or leave it situation, virtually forcing them into an agreement by providing a mirage of choices and then sharing their sensitive data with its parent company Facebook. The high court's verdict came while dismissing the appeals of WhatsApp and Facebook against an order rejecting their challenge to a probe ordered by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) into the instant messaging platform's updated privacy policy of 2021. A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad said the single judge's April 22, 2021 order was well-reasoned and the appeals are devoid of merit and substance that would warrant the interference of this court. While the judgement was pronounced by the division bench on Thursday, it was uploaded on the court's website on Friday. In April last year, a single judge of the high court had refused to interdict the investigation directed by

Regulator says social media network's user policies are opaque and not based on consent

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The new privacy features of WhatsApp are expected to roll out this month onwards, said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO

Appeal was against earlier order refusing to stay CCI probe into WhatsApp's new privacy policy

WhatsApp and Facebook have also challenged the CCI's asking them to furnish certain information for the purpose of inquiry conducted by it.

Should Twitter's new privacy update worry you?

Scheduled to come into effect on August 19, the update essentially provides clarity on some of Twitter's new products, and what data it collects from users

Twitter is trying to generate new revenue. The new policy clarifies what sort of data and metadata it will collect

One of the updates involves Twitter's social audio product Twitter Spaces; It is further adding details of what data it collects for its subscription service, Twitter Blue

'WhatsApp has been bombarding users for months with aggressive, persistent pop-up messages,' says consumer association.

Telegram is not dependent on a third-party platform to store its user data that leads to an additional layer of security, thus eliminating the possibilities of a back-door access

With time you won't be able to receive incoming calls or notifications and WhatsApp will stop sending messages and calls to your phone

Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed pleas by social media platforms Facebook and WhatsApp, challenging India's competition regulator CCI's order directing a probe into WhatsApp's new privacy policy

Apple's new 'App Tracking Transparency' feature allows users to block advertisers from tracking them across different applications

The hearing has been adjourned till April 19

In a quarterly earnings call with analysts on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said that the company has moved the date of this update back to give everyone time to understand what the update means.