EU watchdogs ask Yahoo and WhatsApp to explain privacy breaches – EurActiv.com
The group of powerful data protection watchdogs from EU countries have reprimanded Yahoo and WhatsApp over concerns the companies are violating Europeans' privacy rights.In a letter sent yesterday (27 October), the European authorities asked Yahoo to share information detailing the 2014 data breach of more than 500 million email accounts and recent allegations that Yahoo monitored customers' emails on request from the US government.A separate letter to WhatsApp asked the company to identify exactly what user data it shares with Facebook following a change to the firm's privacy policy this summer.
Yahoo and WhatsApp to be investigated by EU privacy watchdogs
EU Privacy watchdogs have sent letters to WhatsApp around its data sharing with owners Facebook, and Yahoo over its 2014 security breach.The watchdogs, collectively known as the Article 29 Working Party, which has had a hand in the formation of the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation, said it has grave concerns over WhatsApp's latest privacy policy in which the messaging service admits it would share users' phone numbers with Facebook.This is the first privacy policy change since Facebook bought WhatsApp in February 2014.
EU privacy watchdogs warn WhatsApp on privacy policy, Yahoo on breach
BRUSSELS Oct 28 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."
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