BERLIN (AP) — A German consumer group says it has filed a lawsuit against WhatsApp over its data gathering and sharing practices. It says the use of European WhatsApp user data for products and advertising purposes on Facebook has been "temporarily paused" to allow for discussions with officials. The Federation of German Consumer Organizations said Monday that it filed the suit at Berlin's state court. WhatsApp said its "privacy policy and terms updates comply with applicable law." It argued that WhatsApp "collects and stores data in part illegally and passes them on to Facebook."
data, data protection, Facebook, FTC, Germany, India, privacy, User Data, VZBZ, Whatsapp VZBZ, The Federation of German Consumer Organisations, a non-governmental organisation has filed a lawsuit against Whatsapp for sharing its user data with Facebook. German courts and an India High Court ordered Facebook to delete such data and take in regard the user privacy of its users. https://t.co/lkAThAlnjS — Verbraucherzentrale (@vzbv) January 30, 2017Roughly translated, the tweet is saying that, "Whatsapp is illegally transmitting data to Facebook. The group pointed out that the company is illegally collecting and storing the data to pass it to Facebook.
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data, data protection, Facebook, FTC, Germany, India, privacy, User Data, VZBZ, Whatsapp VZBZ, The Federation of German Consumer Organisations, a non-governmental organisation has filed a lawsuit against Whatsapp for sharing its user data with Facebook. German courts and an India High Court ordered Facebook to delete such data and take in regard the user privacy of its users. https://t.co/lkAThAlnjS — Verbraucherzentrale (@vzbv) January 30, 2017Roughly translated, the tweet is saying that, "Whatsapp is illegally transmitting data to Facebook. The group pointed out that the company is illegally collecting and storing the data to pass it to Facebook.
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