NEW DELHI: Confederation of All India Traders, an industry body that represents 70 million traders and 40,000 trade associations, on Wednesday said Reliance Jio and Facebook, which had signed a ₹43,574 crore deal, should not use consumer data available with the social media company.
Facebook has over 350 million users and its messaging app WhatsApp has over 400 million active users in India. "Facebook has been known to be violating domestic laws globally therefore the data already generated with Facebook or its allied organisation WhatsApp should not be used for this new venture else it will be a back stabbing to the people of the country," CAIT said in a statement.