WhatsApp privacy policy: Sanctity and privilege of personal communication needs to be maintained: Prasad

Without divulging what action his ministry intends to take on the new privacy policy of WhatsApp on sharing commercial user data with parent Facebook, communications and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday categorically said that sanctity and privilege of personal communications needs to be maintained. Responding to a question by Indian Express Group’s executive director, Anant Goenka at the 15th India Digital Summit organised by IAMAI, Prasad said that all digital companies are free to operate in India but without impinging upon the rights of Indians. “This is an issue that my department is working on, and being the final authority, it will not be proper for me to make...