The Delhi High Court has ordered Erbauen Labs (the makers of an app called Hush) to remove posts containing confidential business information about Ola, following a petition filed by ANI Technologies, Ola's parent company. According to the order, Ola has attached about 167 pages of content that it is seeking the removal of. The Delhi HC has also said that the defendants, ie Erbauen Labs, needs to "bring in court on the next date of hearing in a sealed cover the names and addresses of the persons who are uploading the impugned posts on the app." MediaNama has a copy of the notice which can be read here: ANI Order (pdf) We’re awaiting a response from Ashutosh Dabral and Umesh Joshi Chandra, the co-founders of Hush, who said that they were waiting to hear from Ola’s lawyers or the Delhi HC and would get back to us once they had consulted with their legal team. We have reached out to Ola with questions as well, and will update this report when we hear from them. There are some 50 odd posts on the Hush app pertaining to Ola at the moment (according to a Hush app search) ranging from a year ago to 2 days ago. The post content ranges from discount coupons for Ola to how the work culture is etc, but generally seems devoid of any confidential information, at a cursory glance. Hush’s content policy dictates that it utilises “community based moderation,” while pornographic, threats, harassment or bullying, racist…
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