{"id":878201,"date":"2024-11-19T08:41:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T03:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=878201"},"modified":"2024-11-19T09:13:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T03:43:20","slug":"cci-slaps-rs-213-cr-fine-on-meta-over-whatsapps-2021-privacy-policy-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/19\/cci-slaps-rs-213-cr-fine-on-meta-over-whatsapps-2021-privacy-policy-update\/","title":{"rendered":"CCI slaps Rs 213 cr fine on Meta over WhatsApp\u2019s 2021 privacy policy update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s antitrust watchdog has fined Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, Rs 213.14 crore for \u201cabusing\u201d its dominant position in relation to the messaging platform\u2019s controversial 2021 update to its privacy policy. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said the penalty follows over how the privacy policy was implemented, and user data was collected and shared with other Meta companies. <\/p>\n<p>The Commission also issued cease-and-desist directions and directed Meta and WhatsApp to implement certain behavioural remedies within a defined timeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s antitrust watchdog has fined Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, Rs 213.14 crore for \u201cabusing\u201d its dominant position in relation to the messaging platform\u2019s controversial 2021 update to its privacy policy. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said the penalty follows over how the privacy policy was implemented, and user data was collected and shared with other Meta companies. The Commission also issued cease-and-desist directions and directed Meta and WhatsApp to implement certain behavioural remedies within a defined timeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878201","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}