referring to WhatsApp has been sued in Germany for sharing user data with Facebook. Also, they are looking forward to force Facebook to delete the data that it has received from WhatsApp earlier. Will it favor WhatsApp and Facebook or turn against them? In September, Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information had ordered the social network to stop compiling and storing data from all the German users of WhatsApp. Also Read: WhatsApp will now send notifications to your friends if you change your statusNow the situation has taken a turn as the Federation of German Consumer Organization has filed a lawsuit looking to end the data sharing.
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WhatsApp's "privacy policy and terms updates comply with applicable law," the company said in an emailed statement. In September, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information ordered facebook to stop collecting and storing WhatsApp data from Germany's 35 million users. That's because in August, WhatsApp changed its terms and privacy policy, saying it would coordinate more with parent company Facebook, allowing WhatsApp "to do things like track basic metrics about how often people use our services and better fight spam on WhatsApp," the messaging company wrote in a blog post. Now the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband, or VZBV) is asking the Berlin county court for an injunction to stop the data sharing, and to force Facebook to delete any data WhatsApp has given it. Jaap Arriens/Getty ImagesIn an odd twist, Facebook's WhatsApp messaging app -- which won applause last year when it turned on end-to-end encryption by default -- is being sued in German court over privacy concerns related to the way it collects and shares data with Facebook.
Shortly after the VZBV made its demand, Hamburg's data protection authority also ordered Facebook to stop importing WhatsApp data. Crucially, WhatsApp now also sends Facebook the phone numbers of its users' contacts, even if those people are themselves not WhatsApp users. In November, the UK privacy regulator forced Facebook to stop importing WhatsApp users' data in that country, and the European Commission's antitrust authority charged Facebook with making "misleading" promises about data separation at the time of the WhatsApp merger. According to the VZBV, Facebook and WhatsApp are breaking European data-protection law through this data-sharing. When Facebook acquired WhatsApp back in 2014, the messaging service promised to maintain its strong privacy policies.
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WhatsApp sued by German watchdog group over privacy
WhatsApp's "privacy policy and terms updates comply with applicable law," the company said in an emailed statement. In September, the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information ordered facebook to stop collecting and storing WhatsApp data from Germany's 35 million users. That's because in August, WhatsApp changed its terms and privacy policy, saying it would coordinate more with parent company Facebook, allowing WhatsApp "to do things like track basic metrics about how often people use our services and better fight spam on WhatsApp," the messaging company wrote in a blog post. Now the Federation of German Consumer Organizations (Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband, or VZBV) is asking the Berlin county court for an injunction to stop the data sharing, and to force Facebook to delete any data WhatsApp has given it. Jaap Arriens/Getty ImagesIn an odd twist, Facebook's WhatsApp messaging app -- which won applause last year when it turned on end-to-end encryption by default -- is being sued in German court over privacy concerns related to the way it collects and shares data with Facebook.
Shortly after the VZBV made its demand, Hamburg's data protection authority also ordered Facebook to stop importing WhatsApp data. Crucially, WhatsApp now also sends Facebook the phone numbers of its users' contacts, even if those people are themselves not WhatsApp users. In November, the UK privacy regulator forced Facebook to stop importing WhatsApp users' data in that country, and the European Commission's antitrust authority charged Facebook with making "misleading" promises about data separation at the time of the WhatsApp merger. According to the VZBV, Facebook and WhatsApp are breaking European data-protection law through this data-sharing. When Facebook acquired WhatsApp back in 2014, the messaging service promised to maintain its strong privacy policies.
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