India`s CCI penalizes Meta ₹213.14 crore for WhatsApp`s 2021 privacy policy update, citing anti-competitive practices and unfair business methods. Meta faces data-sharing restrictions.

The Competition Commission of India (Commission) imposed a penalty of Rs. 213.14 crore on Meta for abusing its dominant position. This relates to how WhatsApp's 2021 Privacy Policy was ...

In its first action of this kind against a social media platform, Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Monday ordered ...

NEW DELHI — India's competition watchdog directed WhatsApp to refrain from sharing user data for advertising purposes with other applications owned by Meta for a period of five years and fined the US ...

The CCI had in 2021 directed an investigation into WhatsApp’s privacy policy update, raising concerns about its potential anti-competitive practices.

India’s competition watchdog has taken a strong stance against WhatsApp, directing the messaging platform to stop sharing user data with other Meta-owned applications for advertising purposes. The ...

There are more and more reports online of a bug that is making two Beta versions of WhatsApp totally unusable: according to what was reported by the testers, when a green screen appears ... Read more ...

The competition watchdog has directed Meta to 'cease and desist' from anti-competitive practices.

In January 2021, WhatsApp had notified users that it was updating its privacy policy – which was mandatory for them to accept ...

The Competition Commission of India is fining Meta $25.4 million, saying it shouldn’t have required WhatsApp users to share data with all Meta companies ...

WhatsApp will now let you save drafts of messages.  The feature has been rolled out ‘worldwide’ after being announced over the weekend.   Draft messages will appear at the top of your chats list - so ...

India’s competition watchdog has ordered WhatsApp to stop sharing user data with other Meta units for advertising purposes ...