Two India Students Challenge Facebook on WhatsApp Privacy Policy
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Two Indian students are mounting a legal challenge to Facebook Inc., seeking to wind back changes to WhatsApp’s privacy policy that they say threatens the rights of millions of users.
Karmanya Singh Sareen and Shreya Sethi filed a public-interest litigation, akin to a class action, in the Delhi High Court asking for a rollback of recent policy updates by the Facebook-owned messaging service. They asked the court to order the government to frame guidelines for messaging apps so that user privacy isn’t compromised.