mashable : Indian court orders WhatsApp to not share user data with Facebook collected before Sept. 25

Indian court orders WhatsApp to not share user data with Facebook collected before Sept. 25

WhatsApp's move to share some of users' information with Facebook isn't sitting well with India.The country's Delhi High Court today directed WhatsApp to make two critical alterations to its forthcoming policy changes for Indian customers.SEE ALSO: WhatsApp announces plans to share user data with FacebookA bench of Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court ordered WhatsApp to delete data of users who choose to opt out of WhatApp's policy changes before Sept. 25.

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."After the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook two years ago, both parties have publicly assured that data will not be shared between them," commissioner Johannes Caspar said in a statement.

Facebook ordered to stop harvesting data on WhatsApp users in Germany

Facebook has been ordered to stop harvesting the data of WhatsApp users in Germany.The move follows the latter's shock announcement last month that it would start sharing user data with its parent company, Facebook, including users' phone numbers and last seen time in the app.Stated uses for the data includes marketing/ad targeting.

Germany orders Facebook to stop collecting WhatsApp data

After purchasing WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014, Facebook said it would never sell "personally identifiable information" from users or otherwise change the app's privacy policy.Late last month, however, it announced that WhatsApp would share phone numbers, profile data, status messages and more with its parent.That prompted critics in the US like the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) to accuse it Facebook of "lying" and violating an FTC order.