{"id":896099,"date":"2025-01-16T07:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T02:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=896099"},"modified":"2025-01-16T07:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T02:26:55","slug":"ccis-ruling-can-force-rollback-of-features-hurt-business-warns-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/16\/ccis-ruling-can-force-rollback-of-features-hurt-business-warns-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"CCI&#8217;s ruling can force rollback of features, hurt business, warns Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta may have to &#8220;roll back or pause&#8221; some features in India due to an antitrust directive which banned its WhatsApp messaging service from sharing user data with Meta for advertising purposes, according to a court filing by the U.S. company seen by Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>Meta is seeking to quash the Competition Commission of India&#8217;s (CCI) November directive which found the company abused its dominance and &#8220;coerced&#8221; WhatsApp users into accepting a 2021 privacy policy which allegedly expanded user data collection and sharing, giving it an unfair advantage over rivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta may have to &#8220;roll back or pause&#8221; some features in India due to an antitrust directive which banned its WhatsApp messaging service from sharing user data with Meta for advertising purposes, according to a court filing by the U.S. company seen by Reuters. Meta is seeking to quash the Competition Commission of India&#8217;s (CCI) November directive which found the company abused its dominance and &#8220;coerced&#8221; WhatsApp users into accepting a 2021 privacy policy which allegedly expanded user data collection and sharing, giving it an unfair advantage over rivals.<\/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":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896099","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=896099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}