CCI has not identified any conduct that denied market access to rivals, Meta tells NCLAT
In a statement to NCLAT on Monday, Meta platforms described the relevant market “incorrect” and did not detect any actual behavior that had a market access or rejected access to competitors.
Amit Sibal, a senior defender for the commodity, said that the entire case of the Indian Competition Commission (CCI) is based on future behaviors and hypothetical scenarios.
“This is less than the legal standard for a finding of a violation, which requires that the behavior should be realized or should occur at the moment. He said. Sibal also said that CCI’s 2021 Privacy Policy update on the market in which the 2021 Privacy Policy update shows online advertising.
Sibal, who was sent to the National Company Law Court of Appeal (NCLAT), said, “CCI has not shown that limited sharing of data from certain optional features of certain optional features has led to any effect on the competitors on the market for online image advertising.”
Moreover, CCI did not ask a single advertiser about the various services in the ad field and the level of substitution between them.
“As a result, CCI accidentally described a ‘online image advertising’ artificially narrow market. This market does not include substitute services such as online search advertising,” he said.
NClat felt a petition that was sentenced to 213.14 Crore in the Social Media Main Branch for unfair work routes regarding the WhatsApp Privacy Policy update in 2021 by the technology giant.
In addition, thanks to the latest technical developments, it does not include offline ads, a suitable competitor of online advertising.
To reach this conclusion, CCI threw rival expressions such as Google and Amazon showing the opposite.
Sibal will continue his arguments on Tuesday.
The senior defender Arun Kathpalia, representing WhatsApp, completed his arguments on Monday.
WhatsApp said that CCI deprived the authority to decide on a data security problem and that there was no change in the 2021 data sharing policy from the 2016 Privacy Policy.
CCI arguments will begin on this issue on 18 and 19 September.
In January this year, the Court of Appeal continued the five -year ban, which was brought by the competition by Watchdog CCI on advertising data sharing applications between WhatsApp and Meta, and offering a ventilation to the technology giant.
In November, CCI sentenced 213.14 Crore for the commodity for unfair work routes regarding the WhatsApp Privacy Policy update in 2021.
Meta platforms and WhatsApp, CCI, the authority of the authority to appeal on orders before Nclat’dan challenged this order.
On November 18, 2024, CCI directed Meta to abandon and give up anti -competitive practices on 18 November 2024, respectively.
According to this CCI Order, Meta and WhatsApp were asked to apply certain behavioral drugs in a timeline defined to address anti -competitive problems.
Regulator called for the implementation of various healing measures, including preventing advertising purposes for advertising for advertising purposes for advertising purposes for advertising purposes with other meta companies or meta company products.
In addition to other instructions, CCI said that the sharing of user data collected in WhatsApp with other commodity companies or commodity company products, sharing for other purposes than providing WhatsApp services, could not be a condition for users to access WhatsApp services in India.
Published – 16 September 2025 09:37
