{"id":118075,"date":"2021-07-12T18:25:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T12:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=118075"},"modified":"2021-07-12T18:25:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T12:55:36","slug":"whatsapps-tactical-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/whatsapps-tactical-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp\u2019s tactical retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/opinion\/whatsapp-s-tactical-retreat-121071100887_1.html\">Business Standard<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis \u2013<\/strong>Need of Personal Data Protection law to safeguard citizens&#8217; right to privacy.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Introduction &#8211;<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Last year, WhatsApp announced its controversial terms and privacy policy. It required users to accept the terms in order to continue using the platform&#8217;s services.<\/li>\n<li>However, after a long conflict, the company recently notified the Delhi High Court that it would not implement its amended privacy policy until the Personal Data Protection Bill took effect.<\/li>\n<li>However, The Personal Data Protection Bill has been pending for more than 3 years and the absence of the legislation causes huge concern.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What was WhatsApp new Terms of Service [ToS] &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Businesses to operate easily<\/strong> &#8211; WhatsApp claims that the new privacy policy was required because it needs to share some information with Facebook in order to develop e-commerce capabilities in the app.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new conditions, corporate accounts will be able to exchange private, personal data and information from those who engage with them.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Concerns related to Whatsapp new TOS-<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Violates\u00a0the right to privacy<\/strong> &#8211; The revised ToS violates the right to privacy provided by the Constitution, as well as a 2016 pledge by WhatsApp to provide users with an opt-out from data sharing.\n<ul>\n<li>It will share users&#8217; personal information and data with Facebook, primarily to boost ad-related income sources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sharing of Metadata<\/strong> &#8211; WhatsApp may share one&#8217;s metadata, which is effectively anything other than the conversation&#8217;s actual content.\n<ul>\n<li>This means, the new policy virtually gives a 360-degree profile into a person\u2019s online activity.<\/li>\n<li>At the moment, there is no government control or regulatory supervision of this level of visibility into a person&#8217;s private and personal actions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Effect of WhatsApp&#8217;s new ToS in other countries-<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In EU- <\/strong>This ToS is not applicable to EU users since it breaches the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the World&#8217;s most advanced and comprehensive data privacy law.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In US-<\/strong> This ToS cannot be applied as it violates privacy and data protection laws.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Steps taken by India in order to formulate legislation-<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In 2017<\/strong>, the union government formed the committee [led by retired Supreme Court Judge Justice BN Srikrishna] to deliberate on a data protection framework.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In July 2018<\/strong>, the committee proposed a Personal Data Protection Bill with multiple protection levels and consent required before each step of data collection and processing. However, that proposal was never presented to Parliament.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In Dec 2019<\/strong>, the redrafted version presented in parliament, which was criticized as Orwellian due to broad monitoring and data-gathering powers granted to government agencies. That draft bill has not been passed into law, and no Bill has been presented since 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Way forward-<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Legislation on data protection should be formulated which safeguards the rights provided to the Citizens, protect individual privacy, ensure autonomy, allow data flow for a growing data ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source &#8211; Business Standard Synopsis \u2013Need of Personal Data Protection law to safeguard citizens&#8217; right to privacy. Introduction &#8211; Last year, WhatsApp announced its controversial terms and privacy policy. It required users to accept the terms in order to continue using the platform&#8217;s services. However, after a long conflict, the company recently notified the Delhi&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/whatsapps-tactical-retreat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WhatsApp\u2019s tactical retreat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704913448},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}