"The Express Tribune" declare : WhatsApp may start sharing data with Facebook soon

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according to You can stop WhatsApp from sharing your data with FacebookThe 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. Data protec­tion author­ities stoppe­d WhatsA­pp from sharin­g users' data with Facebo­ok last yearFacebook's European regulator said it hoped to reach a deal in the coming months with the US 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 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."Read full story WhatsApp to share users' phone numbers with Facebook"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.


As it stated in Facebook & WhatsApp data sharing issue to end soon: After Facebook acquired What's App in 2014 for around $19 Billion, there were huge expectations among users about the changes WhatsApp would suffer. Per it, if you are a WhatsApp and Facebook user, Facebook would happily collect your WhatsApp data and look for the potential advertisement pitches and much more. After the concern had been raised, Facebook stopped sharing the data of European users in last November. Both the top used apps being under the same head, the data sharing wasn't even doubted when it popped up on the user's devices. They also informed Facebook not to take data from What's app for the European users.

Facebook and WhatsApp data sharing issue to end soon
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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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