EU data protection watchdogs warn WhatsApp, Yahoo on privacy – Tech2
European privacy watchdogs warned WhatsApp on Friday over sharing user information with parent company Facebook, and cautioned Yahoo over a 2014 data breach and scanning of customer emails for US intelligence purposes.The popular messaging service's recent change in privacy policy to start sharing users' phone numbers with Facebook – the first policy change since WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook in 2014 – has attracted regulatory scrutiny in Europe.The Italian antitrust watchdog on Friday also announced a separate probe into whether WhatsApp obliged users to agree to sharing personal data with Facebook.The European Union's 28 data protection authorities said in a statement they had requested WhatsApp stop sharing users' data with Facebook until the "appropriate legal protections could be assured" to avoid falling foul of EU data protection law.
read more from here
Facebook and Yahoo data collection draw ire of European Union
Facebook and Yahoo data collection draw ire of European UnionFacebook's decision to begin collecting data from WhatsApp users has already drawn a negative reaction in Germany, but now the entire European Union is getting in on the action.Today, the European Commission's Article 29 Working Party has told Facebook to stop collecting that data as it carries out an investigation into these new policies.Facebook's decision to begin collecting WhatsApp user data has caused a fair amount of controversy ever since these new privacy policies were revealed back in August.Plenty of privacy watchdogs have shared their (usually negative) feelings on the matter since then.
read more from here
EU warns WhatsApp, Yahoo on data protection — Technology — The Guardian Nigeria
European Union (EU) privacy regulators told WhatsApp to "pause" its sharing of user data with parent Facebook as the policy is investigated, while also issuing a warning to Yahoo about an earlier breach.According to several publications, the Article 29 working party wrote to Facebook saying it had serious concerns about WhatsApp's recent policy change, under which it would share user data with its parent company, including phone numbers.In the letter, the group, made up of privacy experts from the EU's 28 member states, "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 can be assured."The EU's warning comes after it said in August, shortly after Facebook announced the policy change; it would follow the move "with great vigilance".Several national privacy watchdogs have taken a hard line on the issue, while Facebook has maintained the policy complies with European data protection law.
read more from here
Comments
Post a Comment