An employee is illuminated by the screen of a laptop computer as he works at an office in Mumbai. (Photographer: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)
Should competition law be used to address privacy concerns? This question has been the topic of much debate the world over, for some time. It gained renewed traction in India with India’s competition law regulator, the Competition Commission of India, deciding to investigate WhatsApp’s data policies as a violation of Indian competition law.