India again tells WhatsApp to withdraw new privacy policy, firm says no accounts deleted yet

BENGALURU: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), in a communication dated May 18, has asked WhatsApp to withdraw its controversial policy and given it a seven days ultimatum to respond.

Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, in his letter to WhatsApp, said if the government gets no satisfactory response from the tech firm, necessary action in consonance with law will be taken.