{"id":972061,"date":"2025-11-06T07:35:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=972061"},"modified":"2025-11-06T07:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:14:55","slug":"nclat-sets-aside-cci-ban-on-whatsapp-sharing-of-user-data-with-meta-upheld-%e2%82%b9213-14cr-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/06\/nclat-sets-aside-cci-ban-on-whatsapp-sharing-of-user-data-with-meta-upheld-%e2%82%b9213-14cr-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"NCLAT sets aside CCI ban on WhatsApp sharing of user data with Meta, upheld \u20b9213.14cr penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: In a partial relief to WhatsApp, the appellate tribunal NCLAT on Tuesday set aside a section of a Competition Commission of India (CCI) order that had banned the instant messaging app from sharing data with Meta Platforms for advertising purposes for five years, but retained a \u20b9213-crore penalty on the social media platform. <\/p>\n<p>Modifying the order passed by the CCI on November 18, 2024, the NCLAT set aside directions in para 247.1 of the 158-page-long order. However, the two-member bench upheld the breach of Section 4(2)(a)(i) and 4(2)(c) as &#8220;WhatsApp&#8217;s 2021 policy constituted abuse of dominance by WhatsApp&#8221; and created a situation of market denial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: In a partial relief to WhatsApp, the appellate tribunal NCLAT on Tuesday set aside a section of a Competition Commission of India (CCI) order that had banned the instant messaging app from sharing data with Meta Platforms for advertising purposes for five years, but retained a \u20b9213-crore penalty on the social media platform. Modifying the order passed by the CCI on November 18, 2024, the NCLAT set aside directions in para 247.1 of the 158-page-long order. However, the two-member bench upheld the breach of Section 4(2)(a)(i) and 4(2)(c) as &#8220;WhatsApp&#8217;s 2021 policy constituted abuse of dominance by WhatsApp&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972061","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=972061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}