Will comply with CCI directions on data sharing, WhatsApp tells SC

New Delhi: Messaging platform WhatsApp on has informed the Supreme Court that it will comply with the directions issued by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) requiring the platform to provide users greater control over whether their data is shared with other Meta companies.

A special bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi permitted WhatsApp and its parent company Meta Platforms to withdraw their interim applications against the CCI penalty after the companies undertook to implement the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) order, which extended CCI's privacy and consent safeguards to advertising-related data sharing.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, appearing for WhatsApp and Meta, informed the apex court that the companies had filed an affidavit explaining their data-sharing practices and had decided not to press their plea seeking a stay of the NCLAT order.