Wednesday 19 May 2021
India has written a letter to WhatsApp asking it to withdraw its newly rolled out privacy policy. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) has noted that this new policy violates several laws and rules. MEITY has given WhatsApp seven days to respond to this notice with a deadline of 25 May. It added that if the response from the Facebook-owned company is not satisfactory, the government can take lawful actions against the social networking giant. This is METIY’s second letter to WhatsApp after it made similar demands in January. To recap, WhatsApp introduced its new privacy policy through a pop-up on…
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