Social-Media
WhatsApp faces the legal question to privacy in the main market
WhatsApp is facing a legal challenge in India, its largest country, following Thursday's petition to the Delhi High Court about the forthcoming reform in the Facebook-owned data sharing app scheme.
The petition alleges that WhatsApp requires its nearly 450 million members in the world to approve new conditions is a breach of their constitutional rights to privacy and poses a threat to national security.
In recent days, via an in-app warning, WhatsApp has asked users to agree on new terms and conditions that give the app permission to share some of their personal details, such as their phone number and location with Facebook.
Users would have to adhere to these conditions by 8 February if they want to continue using the program, said the warning. The move has been mischaracterized by many as undermining their personal contact, which was not the case with WhatsApp this week.
The Facebook-owned app, which services more than 2 billion users worldwide, said that private communications between people remain as private as ever. Facebook has purchased front-page newspaper advertising in a variety of leading Indian newspapers this week to justify the transition that it first outlined last year.
The complainant claimed that the new terms give WhatsApp a 360-degree profile of a person's online operation without any government oversight.
WhatsApp has ridiculed our constitutional right to privacy when conducting a public service in India, in addition to endangering the country's national security by exchanging, uploading and storing consumer data in a given country, and that data, in turn, will be regulated by the laws of that foreign country, reads the petition that is scheduled to be heard on Friday.
Several high-profile start-up entrepreneurs and executives in India have also questioned WhatsApp's current data sharing strategy. India's most valuable startup Paytm accused WhatsApp of working with dual standards, pointing out how the latest move did not impact users of the app in Europe.
How long we will be taken for granted by such blatant double standards ?
Self claimed ad claiming respect of our privacy v/s actual policy.
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