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New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) Global tech giants Meta Platforms Inc. and WhatsApp told the Supreme Court on Monday that they will comply with the NCLAT's directions for extending the Competition Commission of India's (CCI) privacy and consent guidelines to advertising-related data. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi was hearing appeals filed by the tech giants against the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal's (NCLAT) directions of December last y ...Read More >
New Delhi: Appellate tribunal NCLAT on Monday clarified that its order in the WhatsApp matter on privacy and consent safeguards also applies to user data collection and sharing for non-WhatsApp purposes, including non-advertising and advertising.Passing an order over an application moved by CCI seeking clarification over the previous order passed by NCLAT, the appellate tribunal said, "Appellant (WhatsApp and Meta) cannot assert unilateral or open-ended rights over user data."We had clearly held ...Read More >
INDORE, India (AP) -- Two cricketers from the Australian women's national team were inappropriately touched by a motorcyclist in the central Indian city of Indore, where they played in the Women's Cricket World Cup. The two players were walking to a café from their team hotel on Thursday morning when the incident took place, Cricket Australia said Saturday. "CA can confirm two members of the Australian women's team were approached and touched inappropriately by a motorcyclist while walking to ...Read More >
New Delhi: Fair trade regulator CCI has "erroneously" defined the relevant market and has not identified any actual conduct by Meta, which has or would have denied market access to rivals, Meta Platforms told NCLAT on Monday. Senior Advocate Amit Sibal, appearing for Meta, submitted that the Competition Commission of India (CCI )'s entire case is based on future conduct and hypothetical scenarios. "This falls woefully short of the legal standard in Section 4(2)(c), which requires that for a fin ...Read More >
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has levied a fine of 25.4 million U.S. dollars for antitrust violations related to WhatsApp's controversial 2021 privacy policy, TechCrunch reported Monday. It also ordered WhatsApp to stop sharing user data with other Meta units for advertising purposes for five years. The CCI began the investigation in 2021, found that WhatsApp's "take-it-or-leave-it" privacy update constituted an abuse of Meta's dominant position b ...Read More >
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