WhatsApp on Monday told the Supreme Court that it will comply with the Competition Commission of India’s orders requiring the messaging platform to give its users more control over the sharing of their data with other entities of its parent company Meta, Bar and Bench reported.
A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant, and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul Pancholi, was hearing appeals filed by WhatsApp challenging the commission’s directive against the messaging platform’s 2021 privacy policy and proceedings before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal.
WhatsApp told the court that it wanted to withdraw its interim application against the tribunal’s November 2025 directive, which called for the enforcement of the November 2024 orders issued by the commission on the need for a user consent-based framework for data sharing, the legal news outlet reported.
Advocate Kapil Sibal, representing WhatsApp and Meta, informed the court that his clients had filed an affidavit explaining its data-sharing practices and that it will implement the tribunal’s directives by March 16, Bar and Bench reported.
The court also directed WhatsApp to file a compliance report on the user data-sharing directions before the Competition Commission of India as ordered by the tribunal, Bar and Bench reported.
The bench allowed the application to be withdrawn, but said that the main appeal filed by WhatsApp about...
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