The NGO had alleged that WhatsApp has made many changes to its privacy policy from the time Facebook acquired it, which was an abuse of its dominant position. WhatsApp protects your personal messages with end-to-end encryption. If you see the words 'Sent as Text Message' it could mean someone you don’t know has access to your personal messages. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Jrejected the complaint of the NGO alleging predatory pricing by WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014, by not charging any subscription fee from the users. WhatsApp WhatsApp Feb 19 Look out for unencrypted messages. "We do not find any inconformity in the findings of Competition Commission of India (CCI) and hence, the ‘Appeal’ deserves to be dismissed and accordingly is dismissed," said the NCLAT order dated August 2, 2022. WhatsApp went down on Friday evening for millions of users in India and elsewhere who reported issues with privacy settings as well as last seen online status not working. The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) said no doubt WhatsApp has a 'dominant position' but it has not 'abused its dominant position' based on inputs provided by the appellant, an NGO Fight for Transparency Society. Manesh Mahatme, the head of WhatsApps payment business in India, has quit the company after a nearly 18 month stint, according to a person familiar of the matter. Against a backdrop of rapidly improving internet connectivity and rising smartphone use, the number of people using private messaging service WhatsApp has soared since its India launch in mid-2010 to more than 200m more users than in any other democracy. Both Android and iOS WhatsApp users took to Twitter to report the issues. India’s 2019 national elections are widely anticipated to be the WhatsApp elections. (Sign up to our Technology newsletter, Today’s Cache, for insights on emerging themes at the intersection of technology, business and policy. New Delhi: WhatsApp went down on Friday evening for millions of users in India and elsewhere who reported issues with privacy settings as well as last seen online status not working. According to outage monitor portal Down Detector, there was a 66 per cent spike in WhatsApp down reports, with last seen online status not working for them as well as 28 per cent reporting connection issues. The NCLAT has set aside a petition and upheld a 2017 CCI order that dismissed a complaint of predatory pricing against instant messaging platform WhatsApp.
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