The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal suspended a five-year data sharing ban between WhatsApp and Meta Platforms, providing relief for the tech giant.

An Indian appeals tribunal on Thursday put on hold the antitrust authority's five-year data sharing ban between WhatsApp and owner Meta Platforms' other applications such as Facebook and Instagram for advertising purposes.

An Indian tribunal has temporarily lifted a five-year data-sharing ban between WhatsApp and its parent company Meta Platforms, providing significant relief to the US-based tech giant, which had warned that its advertising business could be impacted.

Meta Platforms, the parent company of WhatsApp, has secured interim relief from India’s National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), which stayed the five-year ban imposed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) on WhatsApp’s data-sharing practices.