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WhatsApp contests antitrust watchdog's arguments, citing India's forthcoming privacy law

By Freny Patel ( September 26, 2025, 00:55 GMT | Insight) -- As India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act nears enforcement, WhatsApp and its parent Meta Platforms have urged the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal to curb the Competition Commission of India, arguing it has no authority over privacy. Privacy issues are “the subject matter squarely of privacy law,” the company's lawyers said, citing the IT Act 2002 and the 2011 Rules.As India’s data-protection act comes into force shortly, US messaging service WhatsApp and its parent company, Meta Platforms, pressed the tribunal to rein in the Competition Commission of India, or CCI, from straying into the domain of data privacy rather than competition law....

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