New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Meta-owned WhatsApp on Saturday said it banned over 23 lakh bills in India in the month of August in compliance with the new IT Rules, 2021.
The messaging platform, which has almost 500 million customers (consistent with third-party statistics) within the us of a, received 598 complaint reviews inside the month of August in India, and the facts “actioned” had been 27.
“Over the years, we have continually invested in Artificial Intelligence and different state-of-the-art generation, facts scientists and professionals and in methods, in an effort to keep our customers secure on our platform. In accordance with the IT Rules 2021, WhatsApp banned over 2.3 million (2,328,000) money owed in the month of August,” said a business enterprise spokesperson.
The platform had banned almost a comparable variety of terrible debts in India in July.
Under the upgraded IT Rules 2021, principal digital and social media structures, with in extra of 5 million customers, should submit monthly compliance reviews.
Meanwhile, throughout a listening to difficult the immediately messaging app WhatsApp’s privateness coverage, the Centre informed the Supreme Court this week that the contentious Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill 2019 has been withdrawn and a complete records safety Bill is being prepared.
In August, the Centre withdrew the Bill that has seen 81 amendments in the past three years, aiming to introduce a new, sharper Bill that fits into the comprehensive prison framework and protects the statistics of billions of citizens.
The new draft of the statistics safety Bill is being prepared to augment green utilization of facts due to the fact it’d in large part be utilized by the industry.