EU Privacy Chiefs Investigate WhatsApp And Yahoo
The Article 29 Working Party (WP29), which consists of privacy chiefs from across the 28 nations in the European Union (EU), informed WhatsApp in an official letter that it has "serious concerns" about its sharing of user data with Facebook.The group also sent a letter to Yahoo about the 2014 breach and reports that it scanned its entire user database for U.S. law enforcement.Recently, Facebook announced that it's going to change its privacy policy to allow sharing of WhatsApp user data with its social network service for advertising purposes.
EU privacy watchdogs warn WhatsApp on privacy policy, Yahoo on breach
European privacy watchdogs said on Friday they had sent letters to WhatsApp over its sharing of information with parent company Facebook and Yahoo over a 2014 data breach and its scanning of customer emails for U.S. intelligence purposes.European Union data protection authorities said they had serious concerns about WhatsApp's recent change in privacy policy in which it would share users' phone numbers with Facebook, its first change in policy since Facebook bought the messaging service.The authorities, known as the Article 29 Working Party, "requested WhatsApp to communicate all relevant information to the Working Party as soon as possible and urged the company to pause the sharing of users' data until the appropriate legal protections could be assured."A spokeswoman for WhatsApp said the company was working with data protection authorities to address their questions.
EU Warns WhatsApp & Yahoo Over Privacy Concerns
EU Warns WhatsApp & Yahoo Over Privacy ConcernsRecent months have been quite turbulent as far as online privacy issues are concerned.First, there was WhatsApp who announced that they'd start sharing user data with their parent company Facebook.Given how WhatsApp is one of the most popular instant messaging apps on the planet, the fact that its developers decided to start disclosing users' phone numbers and some analytics data to one of the largest advertising businesses on the planet certainly raised some concerns.
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