Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp Inc on Friday told the Supreme Court that it was in the process of completing compliance with Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) data localisation norms. The issue of appointing a compliance officer for India has already been settled by the messaging platform, the company said in its submissions before the top court. A two-judge bench led by Justice Rohinton Nariman on Friday adjourned the matter for six weeks to give time to WhatsApp and RBI to file compliance reports on the same.
Hearing a plea moved by the Centre for Accountability and Systemic Change (CASC), a