Delhi HC declines to stay Competition Commission’s probe into WhatsApp privacy policy

Declining to stay the Competition Commission of India (CCI)’s ongoing probe into WhatsApp’s latest privacy policy, the Delhi High Court, however, has asked the commission’s Director General (DG) to “bear in mind” that investigation against the Facebook-owned company is under judicial consideration before a division bench of the high court.

WhatsApp and Facebook have approached the high court against the March 24 CCI order in which the competition regulator came to a prima facie conclusion that the conduct of WhatsApp in “sharing of users” personalised data with other Facebook companies, in a manner that is “neither fully transparent nor based on voluntary and specific user consent”,