New Delhi: Defending its decision of investigation WhatsAppThe Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Monday told the Delhi HC that the messenger service has not withdrawn its service. privacy 2021 policy the inspection, CCI Said that its scope of investigation is not pending prior to the issue of alleged breach of user’s privacy Supreme court,
CCI made submissions to the HC on appeals by WhatsApp LLC and Facebook Inc against a single-judge order rejecting their challenge for an investigation by the CCI into the instant messaging platform’s updated privacy policy. In January last year, CCI decided to look into the updated privacy of WhatsApp Policy Based on news reports regarding the same. WhatsApp and Facebook later challenged the decision of the probe in the HC, saying the issue related to its new policy was already under consideration before the HC and the Supreme Court.
However, on April 22 last year, the single judge had refused to stop the probe. The CCI has defended its move to probe the privacy policy of parent company Facebook as well as WhatsApp, saying the former is the holding company of the messaging platform and “could potentially take advantage of the data being shared”.
WhatsApp’s counsel informed the HC that “status quo” is being maintained for users who have not opted for the policy update, and that the CCI probe is being examined before the Supreme Court and the High Court to determine the validity of the privacy policy. view should be postponed. ,
Last week, senior advocate Harish Salve, representing WhatsApp, submitted that it was challenging the jurisdiction of the CCI to examine a policy which has now been put on hold and the government is in the process of bringing in a Data Protection Bill.
senior counsel Mukul RohatgiAppearing on behalf of Facebook Inc. (now Meta Platforms), argued that there was no prima facie material in the case. And the CCI cannot investigate it in a “creeping style”.
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