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Won't start payment service without following RBI norm: WhatsApp assures SC

Plea in top court alleges WhatsApp not following data localisation norms released by RBI on April 6, 2018

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WhatsApp said that it was only conducting trials on about one million users for now

Aashish Aryan New Delhi
Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp Inc on Friday assured the Supreme Court that it would not begin its payment services in India until it full complied with the domestic data storage norms of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The company said it was still conducting trials on its payments solutions services, which is likely to be completed by July.

A two judge Bench of Justices Rohinton Fali Nariman and Vineet Saran was hearing a plea moved by Centre for Accountability and Systemic Change (CASC), a Non-Government Organisation (NGO) which had alleged that WhatsApp had launched its payment services without having