On Friday WhatsApp told the Delhi High Court that the new privacy policy will be on hold till the Personal Data Protection Bill comes into force. Appearing before the bench of Chief justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh, senior advocate representing Harish Salve clarified its stand on the new privacy policy. It is also clarified in the court that it would not limit the functionality for users who are not opting for the new privacy policy in the meantime.
Harish Salve during the hearing at the Delhi High Court said that WhatsApp voluntarily agreed to put the policy on hold. He said, “The government has asked to shut down the policy. We have said we will not enforce it till the data protection bill is passed.”
It needs to mention that the Central Government earlier told WhatsApp to withdraw its privacy policy.
Harish Salve further told the Court, “We will continue to display our updates from time to time to people who have not accepted. In addition, we will display the update whenever a user chooses relevant optional features, like when a user communicates with a business receiving support from Facebook.”
