{"id":407,"date":"2018-01-21T17:20:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T17:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/?p=407"},"modified":"2018-01-21T17:20:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T17:20:32","slug":"supreme-court-questions-whatsapp-s-move-to-tweak-privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/supreme-court-questions-whatsapp-s-move-to-tweak-privacy-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court questions WhatsApp\u2019s move to tweak privacy policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211;\u00a0<strong>hindustantimes.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; color: #212121; font-family: 'PT Serif', serif;\">The Supreme Court questioned <strong>WhatsApp<\/strong> over its change in privacy policy after <strong>Facebook<\/strong> acquired it in 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; color: #212121; font-family: 'PT Serif', serif;\">As per the new policy the instant message service can share data with the social networking platform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; color: #212121; font-family: 'PT Serif', serif;\">A five-judge bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra raised the query while it was hearing petitions challenging WhatsApp\u2019s privacy policy on the ground it allegedly infringed a user\u2019s fundamental right to communicate freely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; color: #212121; font-family: 'PT Serif', serif;\"><strong>Monday was the first day of the hearing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_wrapper_div\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: 'PT Serif', serif; font-size: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; color: #212121; font-family: 'PT Serif', serif;\">During the arguments the court was told that the messaging service provider\u2019s pre-2016 policy did not include data sharing. Senior advocate Siddhartha Luthra, lawyer for WhatsApp, denied the assertion. He said the company never snooped on messages or shared the content.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; color: #212121; font-family: 'PT Serif', serif;\">\u201cWhat is shared is the phone number of the user, the identification number of the device used, user\u2019s registration detail and last access of the service by the user,\u201d Luthra said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 32px; color: #212121; font-family: 'PT Serif', serif;\">The court then asked him: \u201cBut why did you change the policy and what is the purpose for sharing the data.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/supreme-court-questions-whatsapp-s-move-to-tweak-privacy-policy\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"5\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211;\u00a0hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court questioned WhatsApp over its change in privacy policy after Facebook acquired it in 2016. As per the new policy the instant message service can share data with the social networking platform. A five-judge bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra raised the query while it was hearing petitions challenging WhatsApp\u2019s privacy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[753,7,752],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-privacy-policy","tag-supreme-court","tag-whatsapps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1585,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/1585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wakilsahab.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}