Popular messaging platform WhatsApp Takes Strong Action in India it has banned about 69 lakh accounts in India. They have been banned under IT Rules 2021 due to unethical activities. All these have been banned between 1st and 31st December.
The company has said that this action has been taken on the basis of complaints from users received in this user-security report.
Summary
- WhatsApp has banned 69 lakh accounts in India.
- All these have been banned between 1st and 31st December.
- Action has been taken on these under IT Rules 2021.
WhatsApp Takes Strong Action in India
Meta-owned platform WhatsApp has taken big action. The company has banned about 69 lakh WhatsApp accounts in India due to unethical activities.
These have been banned under the new IT Rules 2021. The company said that all these accounts have been banned between December 1 and 31. Let us know about this news.
Why were they banned?
WhatsApp said in its monthly compliance report that about 1,658,000 of these accounts were actively banned before any reports from users and now the company has provided information about all the banned accounts.
The company explained that this user-safety report includes details of user complaints received and actions taken by WhatsApp, as well as WhatsApp’s own preventive actions to deal with abuse on our platform.
More than 500 million users
Guys the popular online messaging platform WhatsApp has over 500 million users in India.. Let us tell you that the platform received a record 16,366 complaint reports in the country in December and the action taken was 13. Account Actioned reflects reports where WhatsApp took remedial action on Aadhaar.
Appellate Committee (GAC) launched
Keeping in mind the privacy and security of social media users, the Center has recently launched a Grievance Appellate Committee (GAC), which looks into their concerns regarding content and other issues.
The panel constituted is a step towards strengthening the country’s digital laws to rein in Big Tech companies, which will pay special attention to the appeals of users against the decisions of social media platforms.
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