{"id":989722,"date":"2026-02-04T09:02:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989722"},"modified":"2026-02-04T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:00:17","slug":"dont-play-with-citizens-right-to-privacy-supreme-court-warns-whatsapp-parent-meta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/dont-play-with-citizens-right-to-privacy-supreme-court-warns-whatsapp-parent-meta\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t play with citizens&#8217; right to privacy: Supreme Court warns WhatsApp parent Meta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down heavily on WhatsApp and its parent organisation Meta for unauthorised sharing of user data for commercial gains, saying the company could not \u201cplay with the right to privacy of citizens\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not allow you to share a single word or data&#8230;. You have made a mockery of the country\u2019s Constitution,\u201d a bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down heavily on WhatsApp and its parent organisation Meta for unauthorised sharing of user data for commercial gains, saying the company could not \u201cplay with the right to privacy of citizens\u201d. \u201cWe will not allow you to share a single word or data&#8230;. You have made a mockery of the country\u2019s Constitution,\u201d a bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant said.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989722","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=989722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}