Indian Government puts its foot down on WhatsApp Privacy Policy
New Delhi, Jan. 20 -- The new WhatsApp privacy policy has been the talk of the town considering its implications on user data. Thus, the Indian Government has its foot down and asked the company to withdraw the latest WhatsApp privacy policy update. In a letter to Will Cathcart, Global CEO, WhatsApp, MeitY wrote that the update enabled WhatsApp and other Facebook companies "to make invasive and precise inferences about users".
In fact, MeitY outlined that the WhatsApp privacy policy update was discriminatory in nature. WhatsApp had said that the new rules would not apply to users in the European Union. EU has a strict data regulation policy under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Thus, the letter also pointed out that unlike...
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