New Delhi: There is no urgency now in hearing that challenges the new privacy policy WhatsApp as an instant message platform has made a statement that it will “not transfer data” to Facebook until the personal data protection bill is resolved, the Delhi High Court said on Thursday.
The US-based company also told the high court that for now it will not block their accounts that do not accept privacy policies.
Judge Chairman D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh said that considering the establishment of the company would hear the request on August 27.
“They have made a statement that until the personal data protection bill is not resolved, they will not transfer.
There are other problems before this court where they have made the statement.
This is not so urgent now,” said the court.
Senior Advocate of Kapil Sibal, appears for WhatsApp, told the court that in accordance with his client holder, their accounts that did not accept new policies would not be removed for now.
“We said we would not block,” said Sibal.
Senior Vivek Sood Advocate, appears for one of the applicants, Harsha Gupta, highlighted that even if the 2021 policy continues to apply, data can still be transferred based on the Pre-2021 policy.
“Let them make a statement that they will not transfer data,” the sood asked the court.
Advocate Manohar Lal, appears for other applicants, Chaitanya Rohilla, proposes that the complaint is not related to private messages sent through the platform but the meta data distributed with Facebook.
Meghan, a lawyer who has challenged policies along with two other people, also raised the problem with respect to user privacy.
“Okay, we are considering.
There’s no point in WhatsApp, make a statement again and again,” said the court.
On July 9, when the court heard a request by WhatsApp and Facebook against the Indian competition commission into the privacy policy, the instant message platform had told the court that until the data protection bill began to apply, it would not force the user.
To select a new privacy policy because it has been detained.
“Commitment is that I will not do anything until the law of parliament enters.
If the parliament allows it, I will have it.
If not, bad luck I have released it until Parliament makes the law.
Somehow we fit or not,” Senior Advocate Salve Harish, Appears for WhatsApp.
The personal data protection bill seeks to regulate the use of individual data by the government and private companies.
The Parliamentary Committee examined the bill was given an extension until the Monsun session to submit its report.
Rohilla, who is the first person to challenge the privacy policy, has argued that the updated privacy policy violates user rights to privacy under the constitution and they can accept it or exit the application, but they cannot choose not to share their data with others.
Facebook or third party applications.
Plea has claimed that the new Privacy Policy WhatsApp allows full access to users’ online activities without supervision by the government.
In its response, whatsapp claims that new policies do not affect user privacy because private messages continue to be protected by end-to-end encryption.
WhatsApp has also challenged the maintenance of writing petitions against it.
The central government, on the other hand, previously argued that the platform was trying to force its users to approve a new privacy policy before data protection bills became legal and obtained “trick approval” and urged the court to hold whatsapp from implementing a new privacy policy.
There is no urgency in the application of the WhatsApp Privacy Policy because it will not transfer data to Facebook, the High Court said
