{"id":980472,"date":"2025-12-16T07:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980472"},"modified":"2025-12-16T08:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:31:40","slug":"users-consent-mandatory-for-whatsapp-for-collection-of-advertising-non-advertising-data-nclat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/16\/users-consent-mandatory-for-whatsapp-for-collection-of-advertising-non-advertising-data-nclat\/","title":{"rendered":"User&#8217;s consent mandatory for WhatsApp for collection of advertising &amp; non-advertising data: NCLAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appellate tribunal NCLAT on Monday clarified that its order in the WhatsApp matter on privacy and consent safeguards also applies to user data collection and sharing for non-WhatsApp purposes, including non-advertising and advertising. <\/p>\n<p>Passing an order over an application moved by CCI seeking clarification over the previous order passed by NCLAT, the appellate tribunal said, &#8220;Appellant (WhatsApp and Meta) cannot assert unilateral or open-ended rights over user data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appellate tribunal NCLAT on Monday clarified that its order in the WhatsApp matter on privacy and consent safeguards also applies to user data collection and sharing for non-WhatsApp purposes, including non-advertising and advertising. Passing an order over an application moved by CCI seeking clarification over the previous order passed by NCLAT, the appellate tribunal said, &#8220;Appellant (WhatsApp and Meta) cannot assert unilateral or open-ended rights over user data.<\/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-980472","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\/980472","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=980472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}