EU has "serious concerns" over WhatsApp data sharing
Concerns have once again been raised over the way WhatsApp handles its users' private data, this time from the European Commission.The messaging app has already been hit with a sharing ban by German regulators after the company changed its terms and conditions to allow an exchange of data between itself and parent company Facebook.Now the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), a European Commission body with representatives from each member state's data protection regulator, has delivered a letter to WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum expressing "serious concerns" over the new terms and conditions announced in August.
EU privacy regulators demands that WhatsApp suspend data sharing with Facebook — RT News
A pan-European privacy watchdog has expressed serious concerns over WhatsApp sharing users' personal data with Facebook and asked it to cease data processing until the end of its investigation.It also warned Yahoo over a 2014 data breach.Recent changes in WhatsApp's privacy policy allowing it to "share information within the 'Facebook family of companies' for a range of purposes that include marketing and advertising" have become a source of "serious concern," Article 29 Working Party (WP29), a pan-European privacy watchdog composed of representatives of the national data protection authorities and the European Commission, wrote in a letter sent to the messenger company and published on Thursday.
WhatsApp warned over Facebook data share deal
Image copyright AP Image caption The data-sharing involved passing phone numbers of WhatsApp users to FacebookWhatsApp has been warned by European privacy watchdogs about sharing user data with parent company Facebook.The regulators said they had "serious concerns" about the changes made to WhatsApp's privacy policy, which made the sharing possible.In a letter to the messaging firm, they asked it to stop sharing data until it was clear that European privacy rules were not being broken.
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