The Supreme Court dismissed the pleas by Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of social media platforms Facebook and WhatsApp, challenging the probe ordered by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) into WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy of 2021.
The Bench said that CCI is an independent authority and the proceedings before it cannot be stopped, and rejected the petitions against the Delhi high court judgment upholding the probe ordered by the chief national competition regulator.
In September, the Delhi High Court had dismissed a plea by Facebook India challenging the probe ordered by the CCI into WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy of 2021. In January last year, the CCI decided to look into WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy, concerning WhatsApp’s anti-competitive sharing of user data with Facebook.
Facebook India, the Indian subsidiary of US-based Meta Platforms, had argued that the CCI has clubbed it in its ongoing investigation against Facebook Inc and WhatsApp even though it has not formed any prima facie opinion against it.
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