“You Maybe a 2 million or a trillion-dollar company but people are concerned about their privacy,” said the Chief Justice of India while issuing notice to the WhatsApp in an application seeking a stay on the operation of its “New Privacy Policy”.
The applicants has prayed that Whatsapp shall not apply lower privacy standards for Indians and shall apply the same standard of privacy standards as is being applied to the Europeans.
A three-judge bench of the Apex Court headed by the Chief Justice S.A. Bobde, Justices A.S. Bopanna & V. Ramasubramanian has asked “WhatsApp” an American messaging company with voice-over service, owned by Facebook, Inc. to file its reply to the petition concerning the “Privacy” of Indian Citizens.
The Senior Counsel Shyam Divan appearing for the Applicants said that WhatsApp was differentiating between Indians and Europeans in terms of privacy standards.
The Senior Counsel Arvind Datar appearing for Facebook submitted that the new privacy policy is completely a new cause of action.
“People have grave apprehensions of loss of privacy. You may be a 2 million or trillion company but people are concerned about their privacy,” said the Chief Justice.
The Court was hearing the application filed by law Students Karmanya Singh Sareen & Shreya Sethi, in their pending case (Karmanya Singh Sareen & Anr. Vs Union of India Ministry of Communications Department of Telecommunications Sectetary & Ors.), after WhatsApp updated its user policy on 4th January 2021.
The petitioners contended that the manner in which the new privacy policy of WhatsApp was framed and the terms of the new policy result in a grave affront to the fundamental right of privacy of crores of Indian citizens using WhatsApp on a daily basis.
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