Allowed to share GPay customer transaction info with third parties :Google to Bombay HC

Google India Digital Services Pvt. Ltd., which operates the GPay app, has advised the Delhi High Court that it’s allowed to share clients transaction information with third parties with the prior permission of NPCI and fee service supplier (PSP) banks.

The submission has been made by Google in its affidavit filed earlier than a Bench of Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan in response to a PIL searching for motion in opposition to ‘Google Pay’ (GPay) for allegedly violating the RBI’s pointers associated to information localisation, storage and sharing.

The High Court on September 24 listed the matter for listening to on November 10 because the Centre and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) haven’t filed their responses but.

Google, in its affidavit, has contended that beneath the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) procedural pointers, issued by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), apps like GPay are permitted to share clients transaction information with third parties and group firms with prior permission of NPCI and PSP banks.

It has additionally mentioned that GPay solely shops atypical customer information — like identify, handle, electronic mail ID and transaction associated particulars — in accordance with the NPCI pointers and never fee delicate information like debit card quantity or UPI PIN.

A customer’s fee delicate information is saved solely on the servers of the PSP financial institution, it has claimed.

The affidavit was filed in response to the petition by advocate Abhishek Sharma who has sought a path to Google not to share any information from UPI change with another get together.

Google has contended that it was complying with the NPCI procedural pointers which govern functioning of all third get together utility suppliers (TPAPs) like GPay.

It has additionally claimed that the petition was not maintainable as Mr. Sharma has accessible to him a number of alternate cures just like the customer care characteristic within the app or approaching the NPCI in accordance with the Payment and Settlement Systems Act of 2007 or asking RBI to train its supervisory jurisdiction.

Google has additional contended that there are different TPAPs like GPay, however the petition has been “selectively filed” in opposition to it.

Mr. Sharma, in his plea, has additionally sought a path to Google to give an enterprise to not retailer information on its app beneath UPI ecosystem and additional not to share it with any third get together, together with its holding or dad or mum firm.

The plea has claimed that the corporate was storing private delicate information in contravention of UPI procedural pointers of October 2019, which permits such information to be saved solely by PSP financial institution methods and never by any third get together utility.

Google has denied the declare, saying clients’ fee delicate information is saved with the PSP banks and GPay solely accesses it in accordance with the rules.

It has additionally denied the allegation that it accesses clients’ location to achieve income from providing extremely focused or personalised promoting alternatives to advertisers. Live Asian News