Facebook may start using your WhatsApp data

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The European Union's 28 data protection authorities last year requested that WhatsApp stop sharing users' data with Facebook due to questions over the validity of users' consent. Facebook's European regulator said it hoped to reach a deal in the coming months with the U.S. company to allow it to use data gleaned from the WhatsApp messaging service it acquired in 2014. Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner Helen Dixon, the lead EU regulator on privacy issues for Facebook ( fb ) because the company's European headquarters are in Dublin, on Tuesday said she hopes for a final resolution by the summer. "We are working towards a solution on that." "I think we are in agreement with the parties — WhatsApp and Facebook — that the quality of the information provided to users could have been clearer, could have been more transparent and could have been expressed in simpler terms," she told Reuters in an interview.


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Facebook nears WhatsApp data deal with EU regulator

Helen Dixon, the Republic of Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner, hopes to come to an agreement with Facebook in a matter of months covering WhatsApp sharing data with the social media giant, Reuters reported. In November, WhatsApp stopped sharing data of European users with Facebook a week after initiating a similar move in the UK at the request of the country's Information Commission. "We hope to continue our detailed conversations with the UK Information Commissioner's Office and other data protection officials, and we remain open to working collaboratively to address their questions," Facebook said at the time. The office is Facebook's primary regulator in the region, as its European headquarters is located in Ireland. Meanwhile, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager recently said she is reviewing Facebook's response to charges it gave misleading information on how it would be able to use customer data during its proposed acquisition of WhatsApp.

Facebook nears WhatsApp data deal with EU regulator

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