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Competition Commission of India orders probe into new privacy policy of WhatsApp

<span style="color: #222222;">The Competition Commission of India on Wednesday ordered a probe into the new privacy policy of WhatsApp. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In a Suo-Motu order on the Updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for WhatsApp Users the Anti-trust Watchdog said that WhatsApp has prima facie contravened the Competition Act, 2000. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The order says that WhatsApp through its exploitative and exclusionary conduct, in the garb of policy update violated the provisions of Section 4 of the act. <br />''<br />''It added that the conduct of WhatsApp in sharing of users' personalised data with other Facebook Companies, in a manner that is neither fully transparent nor based on voluntary and specific user consent, appears prima facie unfair to users.</span>

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