{"id":878667,"date":"2024-11-20T08:56:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T03:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=878667"},"modified":"2024-11-20T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T03:50:11","slug":"meta-disagrees-with-cci-fine-over-whatsapp-privacy-policy-plans-to-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/11\/20\/meta-disagrees-with-cci-fine-over-whatsapp-privacy-policy-plans-to-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta \u2018disagrees\u2019 with CCI fine over WhatsApp privacy policy, plans to appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after being fined by the Competition Commission of India (CCI), Meta said it \u201cdisagrees\u201d with the body\u2019s decision over WhatsApp\u2019s controversial 2021 privacy policy update and plans to appeal it. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday night, India\u2019s competition watchdog said it was imposing a Rs 213.14 crore penalty on the social media giant for \u201cabusing\u201d its dominant position in relation to the messaging platform\u2019s privacy policy update from three years ago. The concerns revolved around how the privacy policy was implemented, and user data was collected and shared with other Meta companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after being fined by the Competition Commission of India (CCI), Meta said it \u201cdisagrees\u201d with the body\u2019s decision over WhatsApp\u2019s controversial 2021 privacy policy update and plans to appeal it. On Monday night, India\u2019s competition watchdog said it was imposing a Rs 213.14 crore penalty on the social media giant for \u201cabusing\u201d its dominant position in relation to the messaging platform\u2019s privacy policy update from three years ago. The concerns revolved around how the privacy policy was implemented, and user data was collected and shared with other Meta companies.<\/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-878667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878667","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=878667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}