The Supreme Court today said it was "concerned" whether the citizens' rights were being affected by WhatsApp's 2016 privacy policy and asked the Centre what steps could it take for the "protection" of users till a regulation is framed. "We are concerned with whether an individual's rights are affected under Article 19(1)(g) of the Constitution due to this (privacy policy). The senior counsel also argued that there were around 160 million users of WhatsApp in India and the consent taken by WhatsApp regarding its 2016 privacy policy was "deceptive". However, Venugopal said each of the countries have their own privacy policy, but India has no such policy. When the bench was told that the WhatsApp privacy policy hampered the right of communication, it said "but then it will be a privacy issue and not about communication alone.

Source: dna May 15, 2017 17:48 UTC