New Delhi: In climbing, Facebook’s message platform WhatsApp said on Friday it voluntarily decided not to enforce a new privacy policy until India’s personal data protection bill was passed.
It made shipments before the Delhi High Court, clarifying it would not force users to choose new policies and only apply it “if the parliament allows” bill.
Appearing for the company, Senior Advocate Salve Harish Salve told the chairman of the Judge D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh would not limit functionality for users who did not choose a new privacy policy.
However, users will continue to receive notifications to update their policies, said Salve.
Recording a platform holder, the bench shows that despite the implementation of the policy has been detained, it continues to exist.
“You don’t apply it, but the policy with you and it can come (start valid) every day,” he recorded.
The latest Salve Iterated Stand will be maintained until the data protection bill becomes a law.
“We have said we will not enforce it until the bill comes out.
If the parliament allows it, we will do it.
Commitment is that: I will not do anything until the law enters.
If not, bad luck …
I have taken it until the law starts applies.
Well we fit or not “.
The bill seeks to regulate the use of individual data by the government and private companies.
The development came when HC heard challenges by Facebook and WhatsApp against the Indian order competition commission which directed the probe into the new WhatsApp Privacy Policy.
Last month, an application was transferred by WhatsApp to enjoy staying at the probe but the court refused.
Salve argues that since Genesis Probe – Privacy Policy – has stopped for now, the same investigation with the Indian Competition Commission (CCI) is now academic.
“The objection is ‘take or leave’ but now is something we don’t do.
Choose, choose out not there,” The senior lawyer underlined, urged HC to give his client time to the end of July to respond to the questionnaire sent by the investigation.
Senior advocate beat Rohatgi, appearing for Facebook, objections to the CCI probe, said the commission jumped over the gun by starting an investigation into the privacy policy when a challenge was waiting before the Supreme Court and the High Court.
However, additional lawyers from Safe Lekhi General, appeared for CCI, said that during the privacy policy there were, the implications would continue to survive and show that this problem was before CCI only at the investigation stage.
CCI previously told the court that this problem was not privacy but access to data and commissions wanted to deal with what metadata was shared.
After hearing all sides, HC delays this problem until July 30 when the CCI stand will be recorded.
A single judge on April 22 said that he did not see the benefits in the Facebook and WhatsApp petition to carry out investigations directed by CCI.
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