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WhatsApp told the court that while its new privacy policy has inherit effect from May 15, it might not start deleting accounts.
The Centre on Monday told the Delhi supreme court that it views the new privacy policy of WhatsApp as a violation of the Indian Information Technology (IT) law and rules, and sought directions to the social media platform to form it clear whether it had been confirming to an equivalent .
The central government's claim was made before a bench of judge D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh during hearing of several pleas challenging WhatsApp's new privacy policy, which consistent with the platform has inherit effect from May 15 and has not been deferred.
WhatsApp told the bench that while its new privacy policy has inherit effect from May 15, it might not start deleting accounts of these users who haven't accepted it and would attempt to encourage them to urge on board.
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The platform said there was no universal or uniform deadline after which it'll start to delete accounts as each user would be addressed it on case-to-case basis.
The bench issued notice to the Centre, Facebook and WhatsApp and sought their stand on one among the pleas by a lawyer who has claimed that the new policy violates users'' right to privacy under the Constitution.
During the hearing, the Centre said that consistent with it the policy was in violation of Indian IT laws and rules.
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0It said it's written to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the difficulty and a reply is awaited and thus , there was a requirement to take care of established order with reference to implementation of the policy.
WhatsApp, opposing the contention, said it had been conforming to Indian IT law and rules and added that its policy has inherit effect from May 15, but it won't be deleting accounts directly .
When the matter was initially listed before one judge, the Centre had said that WhatsApp was treating Indian users differently from Europeans over opting out of its new privacy policy which was a matter of concern for the govt and it had been looking into the difficulty .
It had also said it had been also a matter of concern that Indian users were being "unilaterally" subjected to the change in privacy policy by the moment messaging platform which the govt was looking into it.
The court listed the matter for further hearing on Jefferson Davis' Birthday .
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