WhatsApp tells HC new privacy policy has not been pushed back, came into effect on May 15

WhatsApp told the Delhi High Court on Monday that their new privacy policy has not been deferred and was brought into effect from May 15. The Facebook-owned messaging platform clarified before a bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh that the deadline for the privacy policy has not been extended but accounts that have not accepted the policy yet will not be deleted immediately.

“We are still trying to persuade consumers but if they don’t accept slowly, slowly these accounts will be deleted. There is no universal deadline for this,” senior advocate Kapil Sibal, who is representing WhatsApp, said. For accounts that do not accept WhatsApp’s new privacy policy,