Summary:
The submission was made before Justice Navin Chawla by senior advocate Aman Lekhi on behalf of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) in defence of its order directing an investigation into the new privacy policy of messaging platform WhatsApp. The CCI was looking into the competition aspect and not the alleged violation of individuals' privacy which was being looked into by the Supreme Court Lekhi said. WhatsApp and Facebook represented by senior advocates Harish Salve and Mukul Rohatgi have challenged the CCI's March 24 order directing a probe into the new privacy policy. The two social media platforms have contended that when the top court and the Delhi High Court were looking into the privacy policy then CCI ought not to have "jumped the gun" and intervened in the issue. In January the CCI on its own decided to look into WhatsApp's new privacy policy on the basis of news reports regarding the same..