New Delhi, Feb. 4 -- Around 96% WhatsApp users who were recently surveyed have reported that they receive "pesky or unsolicited" messages everyday, a new report has found.

According to a recent survey conducted by LocalCircles, only 4% WhatsApp users said they "don't get any promotional or spam WhatsApp messages" on the platform. Meanwhile, 54% of the over 13,000 respondents said they get one to three promotional or spam WhatsApp messages everyday, 30% said they get four to seven of such texts, while the remaining 11% stated that they get eight or more such messages on average every day.

The survey comes a day after the Supreme Court on Tuesday rapped Meta Platforms and WhatsApp, saying that they cannot "play with the right to privacy o...