In a setback for Meta-owned WhatsApp, the Supreme Court on Friday cleared the path for the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI’s) probe into the messaging platform’s updated privacy policy of 2021.
The apex court cleared the decks for the regulator to further probe and reach finality in the case it initiated in March 2021 against WhatsApp for alleged abuse of dominance. The regulator viewed the data-sharing policy as exploitative and having the risk of an exclusionary effect.
The SC’s interim order came on an appeal by WhatsApp and Meta which challenged a Delhi High Court decision that went against the