“India has enough technical experts in IITs and other places. Why not set up an independent committee to review the compliance?” asks lawyer Sriram Parakkat
Apar Gupta, a digital rights activist, said that the distinction between WhatsApp’s general privacy policy and India payment policy may not always hold
According to senior advocate Sanjay Hegde, the reluctance of RBI and NPCI to act is because of the absence of a data protection law
Legal troubles persist for WhatsApp Pay even after the messaging platform clarified that its UPI-based payments service fully complies with data localisation norms of the Reserve Bank of India. But a petition filed before the Supreme Court before the approval contends that the NPCI’s approval for WhatsApp Payments should be stayed.
In November last year, WhatsApp got an approval from National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to launch its payments service in a graded manner starting with a maximum registered user base of 20 Mn in UPI. NPCI…
