The decision follows a 2021 probe into WhatsApp's privacy policy, highlighting growing regulatory scrutiny on tech giants as India plans stricter digital competition laws.
A fundamental flaw of the DCB is that it conflates advertisers, publishers, and third-party ad solution providers as a single entity under the umbrella term ‘advertising services’.
The rationale behind this proposed bill stems from the fact that existing competition enforcement is supposedly sluggish and ill-suited to today's fast-paced digital environment.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
That seems to be a puny fine. For all the billions Meta makes from sharing user data from WhatsApp to their other apps, they would be happy to pay $25 million as a cost of doing business.
That seems to be a puny fine. For all the billions Meta makes from sharing user data from WhatsApp to their other apps, they would be happy to pay $25 million as a cost of doing business.