New Delhi, Feb. 23 -- Meta and WhatsApp on Monday informed the Supreme Court that they would comply, by March 16, with the directions issued by the NCLAT, which mandate safeguards on user consent for data sharing, even as their appeal against the NCLAT ruling remains pending.

On December 15 last year, the appellate tribunal had clarified that its safeguards requiring express and revocable user consent would apply to all non-WhatsApp purposes, including both advertising and non-advertising data sharing and granted three months to the companies to implement the directions.

After the counsel representing the appellants (Meta and WhatsApp) informed the Court that they would comply with the directions over which they had sought stay, a bench...