panarmenian : Facebook banned from gathering WhatsApp data

Facebook banned from gathering WhatsApp data

PanARMENIAN.Net - Facebook's gathering of data from users' WhatsApp accounts has hit a stumbling block, after German regulators ruled that the social network must stop the process, Digital Spy reports.The data protection commissioner of the city of Hamburg says the collection of users' information in Germany must cease immediately (via Gizmodo).
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Facebook to appeal German order on WhatsApp data

Facebook said it would appeal against an order by a German privacy regulator on Tuesday to stop collecting and storing data of German users of its messaging app WhatsApp and to delete all data that has already been forwarded to it.The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information said Facebook was infringing data protection law and had not obtained effective approval from WhatsApp's 35 million users in Germany.
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Germany orders halt of Facebook, WhatsApp data sharing

Germany orders halt of Facebook, WhatsApp data sharingFacebook announced in August that it will begin collecting users' data from WhatsApp to improve the social media's targeted ads.Germany seems to be unhappy with the social media giant's move and ordered it to stop.