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==SC: Facebook, WhatsApp not to share users’ data with third parties== | ==SC: Facebook, WhatsApp not to share users’ data with third parties== | ||
[http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Vow-you-wont-share-users-data-SC-tells-07092017011014 AmitAnand Choudhary, Vow you won't share users' data, SC tells tech giants , September 7, 2017: The Times of India] | [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31808&articlexml=Vow-you-wont-share-users-data-SC-tells-07092017011014 AmitAnand Choudhary, Vow you won't share users' data, SC tells tech giants , September 7, 2017: The Times of India] | ||
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The networks used most frequently
2016-18
From: January 25, 2019: The Times of India
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The social networks used most frequently in India, 2016-18
Social media and the law
The Supreme Court asked online behemoths Facebook and WhatsApp to file an affidavit assuring that they will not share data of their users with a third party until the Centre framed a law for data protection.
A five-judge constitution bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, justices A K Sikri, Amitava Roy , A M Khanwilkar and M M Shantanagoudar granted the companies four weeks to file the affidavit. The bench said it will examine their response and decide whether interim order is required to restrain sharing data with a third party .
The Centre is framing a law on data protection in the light of the recent judgment of the SC pronouncing the right to privacy as a fundamental right in which it had left it to the government to frame a legislation.
Senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Arvind Datar, appearing for the multi-national companies, denied allegations of sharing of data with any third party . They contended that two billion people used WhatsApp but none, except two students who filed petition, had complained about violation of privacy .
Additional solicitor general Tushar Mehta told the bench at the outset of proceedings that an expert committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of former apex court judge Justice B N Srikrishna by Centre to identify key data protection issues in India and file a draft bill on data protection law. He pleaded the court defer the hearing till the Centre framed the law.
Agreeing with his submission, the bench deferred the hearing on a petition challenging WhatsApp's 2016 privacy policy and fixed the matter for hearing on November 20. It, however, said that the data of users should be protected in the interim period and asked the companies to give the undertaking.
