News Update Plea filed in the Supreme Court against privacy policy of WhatsApp 17 Jan 2021 The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) moved the Supreme Court, seeking a direction to the government to stop online messaging platform, WhatsApp, from sharing user data with any entity,…
News Update Whatsapp Privacy Policy case to be heard in DELHI HC 15 Jan 2021 Justice Prathiba Singh of Delhi HC recuses herself from hearing the matter.On Friday, the Delhi High Court begun with hearings on the challenge presented to WhatsApp's new Privacy Policy. Justice Prathiba…
News Update WhatsApp’s new privacy policy challenged in Delhi High Court 14 Jan 2021 A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has challenged the new privacy policy of the instant messaging app, WhatsApp in the Delhi High Court. The petitioner contends that the new privacy policy…
News Update Bail granted by the Madhya Pradesh HC on the condition of going for “counselling” 5 Dec 2020 The Madhya Pradesh High Court sets the man free who was arrested for a WhatsApp status regarding the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019. A bail was given on the basis of…
News Update Boy shoots sister for texting friend on WhatsApp 21 Nov 2020 Delhi Police have reported the incident of a young boy aged 17 shooting his younger sister after she refused to stop texting her male friend on Whatsapp. The incident took…
News Update WhatsApp Pay now available for users in India 6 Nov 2020 WhatsApp announced that the feature will be available in India starting today. WhatsApp in its blog has mentioned that it wants to make money transferring as easy as sending messages…
News Update Delhi govt. given two weeks’ time to reply to plea concerning privacy of Covid-19 patients 1 Oct 2020 An order was passed by the Delhi High court in the case of Kush Kalra v. Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD). The plea seeks relief with respect…
News Update RBI denied the permission to WhatsApp to go live for full Scale UPI operation. 1 Aug 20201 Aug 2020 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said to the Supreme Court that it has denied the permission to WhatsApp to go live for full scale operations on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payment…
News Update Punjab & Haryana HC issues notice to Sonepat Magistrate over ban on emanating news via social media 16 Jul 2020 A Stay on the operation of "all social media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Whatsapp, Instagram, Telegram, Twitter, Telegram etc being used as news channels" was issued on June…