META /WHATSAPP FACE ANTITRUST PROBE ON ITS NEW DATA PRIVACY POLICY IN INDIA – SUPREME COURT DISMISSES THE SLP AGAINST CCI PRIMA FACIE ORDER OF INVESTIGATION

The winds seem to be blowing against US Big Tech companies in India!! Soon after the humiliating defeat faced by Intel in the Karnataka High Court in August, 2022 whereby the largest Chipmaker lost its challenge to the Antitrust probe ordered by India’s Fair Market watchdog, the Competition Commission of India (CCI/Commission), comes this most…

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WhatsApp gets temporary relief – NCLAT upholds the earlier CCI decision against any abuse of dominance by WhatsApp’s data privacy policy

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (‘NCLAT’), vide its order dated 2nd August 2022, has upheld the earlier order dated 1st June 2017  of the Competition Commission of India (‘CCI’) where it found that the change in terms of service including the privacy policy of WhatsApp particularly concerning sharing of user data with Facebook (now…

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Can Amazon be tamed in India -Antitrust probe -Will it be forced to change its modus operandi in India?

So, Amazon (and Walmart controlled Flipkart) were not able to convince the highest judiciary in India, the Supreme Court of India, to stall the Antitrust probe against their alleged unfair business practices affecting retail online and offline vendors in India. Vide its brief order dated 09 August , 2021 , the Supreme Court of India…

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IS APPLE REALLY A WHITE KNIGHT OF PRIVACY – APPLE’S NEW APP TRACKING POLICY – ENHANCING COMPETITION OR ABUSING DOMINANCE? ***

*** This blog has been co-authored by me with Aniket Panchal and Diya Vaishnav, two young students of 2nd Year B.B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) & B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) respectively, at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. In April 2021, Apple has rolled out a new software update iOS 14.5 through which it seeks to implement a global…

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