Senior Advocate Harish Salve, appearing on behalf of WhatsApp, told the Delhi High Court that the messaging app will not enforce its privacy policies until the Data Protection Bill comes into force.
WhatsApp’s new privacy policy was first announced in January.
Senior Advocate Harish Salve on Friday told the Delhi High Court that WhatsApp will not enforce its privacy policies until the Data Protection Bill comes into force. Salve, appearing on behalf of WhatsApp and Facebook, said the new privacy policy is on hold.
“The government has asked to shut down the policy. We have said we will not enforce it till the Data Protection Bill is passed. That is open-ended because we don’t know when the Bill is going to come out,” Harish Salve during the hearing at the Delhi High Court.
Harish Salve further told the Delhi High Court: “We have said we will not do this [enforce policy] for a while. Suppose the Bill allows me to do it, we will have completely different ramifications. “
Harish Salve said, “The MeiTy [Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology] feels WhatsApp’s privacy policy is against Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules 2011, “
“We replied to MEITY’s notice seeking a response, saying that WhatsApp will not limit functionality for some time and continue to show users the updated version of its app,” Harish Salve said.
“We will maintain this approach until the Data Protection Bill comes into force. We have voluntarily agreed to put the update on hold till then,” Salve said.
Harish Salve further pointed that the “challenge to the privacy policy and challenge to CCI [Competition Commission of India] order for probe are different “.” Eighty per cent to 90 per cent is related to the privacy policy challenge, “he said.
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