Delhi HC adjourns pleas against WhatsApp privacy policy

ADJOURNING the petitions challenging the latest privacy policy of WhatsApp to next month, the Delhi High Court on Thursday said there is no urgency in hearing the matter since the Facebook-owned company had made a statement that it would “not transfer data” to Facebook until finalisation of the personal data protection Bill.

“How many times they have to make a statement? They have already made a statement once (in another matter) that till the personal data protection Bill is finalised, they are not going to transfer (data). So there is no need to make every time new statement or same statement again and again,” the division bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh said.