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‘We cannot see people’s personal chats’, says WhatsApp after Delhi HC rejects pleas against CCI probe
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‘We cannot see people’s personal chats’, says WhatsApp after Delhi HC rejects pleas against CCI probe

Gadgets Now / Updated: Apr 23, 2021, 05:07PM IST
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We cannot see peoples personal chats says WhatsApp after Delhi HC rejects pleas against CCI probe
WhatsApp in an official statement to the media reiterated the messaging platform doesn’t and cannot see personal chats of users as the platform is end-to-end encryption. It also said that the new privacy policy update has nothing to do with ‘seeing personal chats of users’. The statement comes after the Delhi High Court dismissed pleas by Facebook and WhatsApp challenging CCI’s order to investigate WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy.

“We firmly believe in protecting the privacy of our users. We cannot see people's personal messages as they are protected by end-to-end encryption. We are updating our terms to provide users with more transparency about their choices to interact with businesses, if they require. Our users are at the heart of everything we do and we're focused on making sure our conviction on protecting people's privacy is clear," a WhatsApp spokesperson said in its statement to the media.

As per a report by news agency PTI, Justice Navin Chawla said that though it would have been "prudent" for the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to await the outcome of petitions in the Supreme Court and the Delhi HC against WhatsApp's new privacy policy, but not doing so would not make the regulator's order "perverse" or "wanting of jurisdiction".

The court said it saw no merit in the petitions of Facebook and WhatsApp to interdict the investigation directed by CCI.


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