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SC slams WhatsApp, Meta over privacy policy, says will pass interim order on Feb 9
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....C slams WhatsApp, Meta over privacy policy, says will pass interim order on Feb 9<BR>Corp. Laws / SEBI / IBC<BR>Dated:- 3-2-2026<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Feb 3 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down heavily on Meta Platforms Inc and WhatsApp while hearing their appeals against a Competition Commission of India order imposing a penalty of Rs 213.14 crore over the privacy policy, saying tech giant....
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....s cannot “play with the right to privacy of citizens in the name of data sharing”. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi said that it will pass an interim order on February 9. The top court ordered that the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology be made a party to the petitions. It was hearing appeals filed by Meta and Whats....
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....App against a National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) judgment that upheld the CCI’s findings of abuse of dominance, while granting limited relief on advertising-related data sharing. "You can't play with the right of privacy of this country in the name of data sharing. We will not allow you to share a single word of the data, either you give an undertaking...you cannot violate the righ....
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....t of privacy of citizens,” the CJI said. The bench said the right to privacy is zealously guarded in the country and noted that the privacy terms are “so cleverly crafted” that a common person cannot understand them. “This is a decent way of committing theft of private information, we will not allow you to do that... You have to give an undertaking otherwise, we have to pass an order,....
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.... the CJI said. PTI SJK RHL<BR> News - Press release - PIB....