The world's most popular instant messaging service, WhatsApp has been given the clearance to implement its proposed privacy policy change. The Delhi High Court while allowing WhatsApp to do so, however told the company to delete all data and information of all users from its servers up until September 25 when its new privacy policy comes into effect.

The court order came in a petition filed by Karmanya Singh Sareen and Shreya Sethi claiming that the new policy amounted to privacy infringement.

The high court reminded the petitioners that the policy of WhatsApp mentioned that there may be periodic revisions and wondered how it is "open to users now to contend that WhatsApp shall be compelled to continue the same terms of service".