India, Feb. 3 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday pulled up WhatsApp and its parent company Meta over concerns of user data sharing, asserting that citizens' right to privacy cannot be compromised in the name of technology or business practices.

"You can't play with the right to privacy of citizens of this country in the name of data sharing," the court told the tech giant, reported PTI.

The top court further questioned Meta's argument on user consent and opt-out mechanisms. Coming down strongly on the issue, the bench remarked that asking where the question of opting out arises amounts to "a decent way of committing theft of private information."

Expanding the scope of the case, the Supreme Court made Ministry of Electronics and Informati...