India, Feb. 3 -- The Supreme Court rebuked online messaging platform WhatsApp and its parent Meta for allegedly exploiting the data of Indians, asking the company to exit the country if it can't follow its constitutional values.

The SC directed WhatsApp to completely stop sharing user information and asked the platform to provide a signed affidavit and undertaking from its management agreeing to the same, LiveLaw reported.

"You were bought by Facebook, tomorrow Facebook will be bought by someone else and you will transfer the data. You cannot play with the right of privacy of this country, let a clear message go on your WhatsApp. You are making a mockery of the constitutionalism of this country," Chief Justice of India Surya Kant was qu...