A privacy lawsuit against WhatsApp in India over its new data sharing policy has got momentum with the country’s top court seeking responses from Facebook, WhatsApp and the federal government. WhatsApp sparked off a furore last year when it said it would be sharing account information of users with Facebook and its companies. The Delhi High Court had earlier ordered that WhatsApp should remove from its servers data of users who had deleted the messaging app before Sept. 25, 2016. The court also ordered that the Indian government should look into the feasibility of setting up a regulatory framework for messaging apps like WhatsApp.”]
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