On 27 April, the Supreme Court heard the WhatsApp privacy policy case, Hindustan times reports. Of contest is whether WhatsApp's owner, Facebook, is violating Indian's right to privacy by accessing call, text and document data, a charge WhatsApp had denied. On 18 April, the Centre said it was considering a data protection law that would apply to social media sites like WhatsApp and Facebook in an attempt to achieve a deferment of the hearing. "Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi told a five-judge constitution bench, headed by Justice Dipak Misra that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India was in the process of evolving the data protection framework," the report states.
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