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WhatsApp to follow RBI norms on payment data storage: Report

The central bank had in 2018 mandated that payment data on Indian users should be stored only on servers located in India

April 09, 2019 / 10:41 IST
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WhatsApp is working to comply with Reserve Bank of India (RBI) guidelines on localisation of payment data, according to a report by The Economic Times. This means that data of WhatsApp Pay users will be stored only on servers in India.

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“We plan to comply with RBI guidelines. Only some engineering work is left,” a senior Facebook executive told the newspaper.

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