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WhatsApp asked by Indian government to withdraw 'discriminatory' privacy-policy changes

By Freny Patel ( January 20, 2021, 08:33 GMT | Insight) -- WhatsApp has attracted the wrath of the Indian government, which called on the messaging app to reverse its privacy policy for India announced earlier in the year. In a strongly worded letter to WhatsApp’s chief executive office Will Cathcart, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said the proposed policy could result in security risks and was discriminatory for Indian users. WhatsApp has attracted the wrath of the Indian government, which called on the messaging app to reverse its privacy policy for India announced earlier in the year. In a strongly worded letter to WhatsApp’s chief executive office Will Cathcart, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said the proposed policy could result in security risks and was discriminatory for Indian users....

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