{"id":989840,"date":"2026-02-04T12:13:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989840"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:54:16","slug":"sc-slams-whatsapp-over-data-sharing-with-meta-calls-it-theft-of-personal-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/sc-slams-whatsapp-over-data-sharing-with-meta-calls-it-theft-of-personal-info\/","title":{"rendered":"SC slams WhatsApp over data sharing with Meta, calls it \u2018theft\u2019 of personal info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:\u2009The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will not permit the \u201cexploitation\u201d of personal data of even a single Indian citizen, adding that the messaging platform WhatsApp sharing data with its parent company, Meta Platforms, was nothing but a \u201cdecent way of committing theft of personal information\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and justices Joymala Bagchi and V.M. Pancholi was hearing a batch of appeals and cross-appeals filed by WhatsApp, Meta and the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal\u2019s (NCLAT) November 4, 2025 order upholding a \u20b9213.14 crore penalty over WhatsApp\u2019s 2021 privacy policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:\u2009The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it will not permit the \u201cexploitation\u201d of personal data of even a single Indian citizen, adding that the messaging platform WhatsApp sharing data with its parent company, Meta Platforms, was nothing but a \u201cdecent way of committing theft of personal information\u201d. A bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and justices Joymala Bagchi and V.M. Pancholi was hearing a batch of appeals and cross-appeals filed by WhatsApp, Meta and the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal\u2019s (NCLAT) November 4, 2025 order upholding a \u20b9213.14 crore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-telecom-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989840","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}