{"id":799549,"date":"2022-09-29T10:16:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T10:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/09\/29\/privacy-issue-sc-to-hear-plea-against-whatsapps-policy-in-jan\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T10:16:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T10:16:46","slug":"privacy-issue-sc-to-hear-plea-against-whatsapps-policy-in-jan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2022\/09\/29\/privacy-issue-sc-to-hear-plea-against-whatsapps-policy-in-jan\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy issue: SC to hear plea against WhatsApp&#8217;s policy in Jan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would take up on January 17, 2023 a plea by two students contending that WhatsApp&#8217;s policy to share users&#8217; data with parent company Facebook and others is a violation of their privacy and free speech. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice K M Joseph asked the parties to complete pleadings in the matter by December 15.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are inclined to adjourn the matter to January 17, 2023 for final hearing,&#8221; the bench also comprising Justices Ajay Rastogi, Aniruddha Bose, Hrishikesh Roy and C T Ravikumar said.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court was hearing the plea filed by two students &#8212; Karmanya Singh Sareen and Shreya Sethi &#8212; challenging the contract entered into between the two companies to provide access to calls, photographs, texts, videos and documents shared by users is violation of their privacy and free speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would take up on January 17, 2023 a plea by two students contending that WhatsApp&#8217;s policy to share users&#8217; data with parent company Facebook and others is a violation of their privacy and free speech. A five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice K M Joseph asked the parties to complete pleadings in the matter by December 15. &#8220;We are inclined to adjourn the matter to January 17, 2023 for final hearing,&#8221; the bench also comprising Justices Ajay Rastogi, Aniruddha Bose, Hrishikesh Roy and C T Ravikumar said. The apex court was hearing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}