Facebook-WhatsApp deal may be scrutinised by Indias fair trade regulator CCI A senior official said the Commission is yet to receive an application seeking approval for the deal, but it would indeed face an elaborate scrutiny. Both Facebook and WhatsApp have substantial number of customers in India and they may soon file a notice with CCI to seek its clearance for the deal. While India has nearly 93 million Facebook users, the count of people using the popular WhatsApp service is around 40 million in the country. Meanwhile, concerns are already being raised in certain quarters about privacy issues post deal. Privacy groups in the US have asked American fair trade regulator FTC to put the deal on hold and probe how the social media giant plans to use subscriber data. US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate WhatsApp and enjoin its unfair and deceptive data collection practices for any future changes to its privacy policy.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:56:15 +0000
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