Europe urges Facebook to stop tapping WhatsApp data
Article 29 is considered an EU advisory group and doesn't have the power to order companies to do anything.However, in the French version of the letter, it used the strongest language it could by "urgently requesting" that WhatsApp halt the data collection.When Facebook acquired the messaging service, it promised not to collect personal user data.
Facebook to stop gathering WhatsApp users' data in UK
Facebook has shelved a controversial plan to harvest data from its WhatsApp messaging app in the UK amid pressure from the British data watchdog.The Information Commissioner's Office said the social media giant had agreed to "pause" sharing data including users' phone numbers between WhatsApp and Facebook as the regulator investigated whether it complied with British data laws.WhatsApp, which has more than one billion users including millions in the UK, said in August that it would begin to share data with Facebook for the first time since it was sold to the American company for $19 billion (£15 billion) two years ago.
Facebook agrees to suspend using WhatsApp user data
Britain's Information Commissioner's Office said Facebook has agreed to suspend using data from UK WhatsApp users for advertisements or product-improvement purposes.Britain's Information Commissioner's Office said Facebook has agreed to suspend using data from UK WhatsApp users for advertisements or product-improvement purposes.According to a report by Reuters, the Office said Facebook will face "enforcement action" if it uses the data without valid consent.
WhatsApp data sharing with Facebook forced to stop after UK Information Commissioner's Office steps in
Facebook has been forced to end a hugely controversial data sharing agreement with WhatsApp.The decision would have seen WhatsApp hand out information on all of its users to Facebook, letting the latter use data about people's chats to inform its advertising.It would also have gone the other way – allowing companies to send WhatsApp's to people based on things they've bought on Facebook, for instance.
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