1st September 2021, Kathmandu
Delhi high court to hear appears to Facebook and WhatsApp in October in privacy policy matters.
The Delhi supreme court verbalized it’ll auricularly discern in October the appeals of Facebook and WhatsApp challenging its single-judge order dismissing their peas against the probe injunctively authorized by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) into the moment messaging app’s incipient privacy policy.
A bench of Chief Equity D N Patel and Equity Jyoti Singh listed the matter for October 11 while elongating the time to file replies to June 4 and eight descries issued by CCI to WhatsApp and Facebook, till then.
While CCI was represented through adscititious lawman Aman Lekhi, WhatsApp and Facebook were represented through senior advocates Harish Salve and Mukul Rohatgi respectively.
WhatsApp and Facebook have withal challenged the CCI’s asking them to furnish certain information for the purport of inquiry conducted by it.
The case relates to the appeals of Facebook and WhatsApp against one judge order dismissing their pleas against the probe CCI injunctively authorized into the moment messaging app’s incipient privacy policy.
The division bench of the Supreme Court had on May 6 issued descries on the appeals and asked the Centre to replication thereto.
The single judge on April 22 had verbalized through it might are “prudent” for the CCI to await the result of the petition within the Supreme Court and therefore the Delhi supreme court against WhatsApp incipient privacy policy, not doing so wouldn’t make the regulator’s order “perverse” or “wanting of jurisdiction”.
The court had verbalized it optically discerned no merit within the petitions of Facebook and WhatsApp t0 interdict the investigation directed by the CCI.
The CCI had contended afore the only judge that it had been not examining the alleged infringement of individuals’ policy which was being looked into by the Supreme Court.
It has been argued in the court that the incipient privacy policy of WhatsApp would cause inordinate data accumulation and “stalking” of consumers for targeted advertising to usher in more users and is ergo an alleged abuse of ascendant position.
WhatsApp and Facebook had challenged the CCI’s March 24 order directing a search into the incipient privacy policy.
In January, the CCI on its own decided to seem into WhatsApp’s incipient privacy policy on the substructure of stories reports regarding equipollent.