Facebook to appeal German order on WhatsApp data
This order protects the data of about 35 million WhatsApp users in Germany.Photo:Frankfurt: 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.
Germany blocks WhatsApp data transfers to Facebook
Facebook would be required to delete any data already received from WhatsApp in GermanyBERLIN: German data protection authorities on Tuesday said they had blocked Facebook from collecting subscriber data from its subsidiary WhatsApp, citing privacy concerns.Facebook and WhatsApp promised in the wake of the Silicon Valley giant's 2014 acquisition of the messaging app that they would not share data, Hamburg's Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Johannes Caspar recalled in a statement.He added that Facebook would be required to delete any data already received from WhatsApp in Germany.
Germany orders Facebook to delete WhatsApp user data – Tech News Gazette
In an unprecedented win of privacy in the online world over the blatant sharing of user data by services, Facebook has been ordered to delete all the WhatsApp user data that it has collected and to immediately cease collecting such data by the German privacy regulator.The order was issued by Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information while stating that Facebook is infringing data protection law in the country and prior to changing its policies through which it started collecting such information, it didn't seek any approval from WhatsApp users in Germany.The Comissioner also added that when the acquisition happened two years back, it was assured by both Facebook and WhatsApp that user data will not be shared between the two and this is a violation of that assurance.
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