“You may be two trillion-dollar company, but people love their privacy", says SC to WhatsApp
Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Facebook and WhatsApp, seeking their response on a plea challenging WhatsApp's latest privacy policy which was introduced in January this year in India.
Meanwhile, the matter of WhatsApp privacy policy in India has been posted for hearing, four weeks later.
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The top court observed that people have major concerns about privacy and that the citizens’ privacy is more important than money.
It also stated that people have several apprehensions in their minds that they will lose their privacy, and it is the duty of the Supreme Court to protect them.
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However, WhatsApp refuted the allegations that it shares data of its users. The Facebook-owned app told the Supreme Court that the same privacy policy is applicable to all countries except European nations which have special data protection laws.
To this, the top court stated that “People value their privacy more than the value of the company which might be in trillions."
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