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Person violates privacy  Center Government  notice to WhatsApp remove new privacy policies.| Govt tells WhatsApp to withdraw privacy policy| Criticism sharing sparks  to expand data  WhatsApp update.

 

Data security of Indian citizens, private conversations are soon leaking new privacy policy. So WhatsApp has been requested to remove this new policy.

The center also sent a notice to remove WhatsApp's new privacy policy. Sovereignty is the responsibility of the government to protect the rights and privacy of Indian citizens. The Central Ministry of Information Technology and Electronics has sent a notice to WhatsApp. This privacy policy is dangerous to data and information security. Mentioned in that notice. WhatsApp has been asked to respond to the notice by May 25.

Otherwise, domestic law will take action against this medium. The ministry has also given such a warning.Data security of Indian citizens, private conversations are soon leaking new privacy policy. So WhatsApp has been requested to remove this new policy. That is what a source in the ministry said.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court last February issued a notice to the Center and WhatsApp about the new privacy policy of the messaging app WhatsApp. The court sought a response from the government and the messaging app within four weeks, alleging that the privacy of Indians was lower than that of European users of the messaging app.

The apex court observed, based on a petition seeking to restrain WhatsApp from implementing its new privacy policy in India, ‘there are deep concerns about privacy in this app. There the privacy of citizens is more important than money. The apex court said there was a serious fear that people would lose their privacy and that it was their responsibility to protect them.

A bench headed by the then Chief Justice SA Bobad has issued notice to the government and Facebook-owned WhatsApp on the 2016 interim application of Karmanya Singh Sarin. The apex court has said that the value of privacy is much higher than the value of that organization.

Although denying allegations of user data sharing, WhatsApp has told the Supreme Court that the same privacy policy applies to all countries except European countries that have special data protection laws. Europe has a special law on privacy and if India has such a law, it will follow it.

The government has once again directed Facebook-owned WhatsApp to take back its new Privacy Policy, which came on effect from May 15.

In a second letter sent by the ministry of electronics and IT, to WhatsApp on Tuesday, the ministry has asked WhatsApp to withdraw its Privacy Policy 2021. “The changes to the Privacy Policy and the manner of introducing these changes including in FAQ undermines "the sacrosanct values of informational privacy, data security and user choice for Indian users and harms the rights and interests of Indian citizens," official sources told ET.

The government has given seven days time to WhatsApp to respond to his notice and if no satisfactory response is received, necessary steps in consonance with law will be taken, sources added. “The Government of India will consider various options available to it under laws in India,” they said.