WhatsApp has informed the Delhi High Court that they have voluntarily put updated privacy policy on hold.
Senior Advocate Harish Salve made the submission on behalf of WhatsApp before a Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh.
“Government has asked to shut down the policy. We have said we will not enforce it till Data Protection Bill comes out. That is open-ended because we dont know when the Bill is going to come out … We have said we will not do this for a while. Suppose the Bill allows me to do it, we will have completely different ramifications”, Salve submitted.
Salve also informed that the Union Ministery of Electronics and Informtation Technology (MEITY) has communicated to WhatsApp that it feels the WhatsApp Privacy Policy is against the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information), Rules, 2011.
With inputs from NDTV