"TechCrunch" said : Facebook fined $122M in Europe over misleading WhatsApp filing

referring to In the meantime, the company has confirmed to us that data sharing between WhatsApp and Facebook remains suspended in Europe. And European data protection agencies' fast-flowing objections to the WhatsApp-Facebook data sharing quickly led to Facebook suspending these data flows in the region. Facebook responded to the fine with its own statement — claiming it had made "errors" in 2014 when it made the filing to regulators. And it imposes a proportionate and deterrent fine on Facebook," she added. The European Commission said today that Facebook told it at that time that it could not automatically match user accounts between its own platform and WhatsApp — yet the company subsequently revealed it would be doing just that.


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Facebook faces EU fine over misleading WhatsApp data: source


Facebook faces EU fine over misleading WhatsApp data: source
Italian antitrust authorities levied a 3-million-euro fine on whatsapp last week for allegedly obliging users to agree to share their personal data with Facebook. The EU sanction will come on the heels of a 150,000-euro fine handed down by a French data watchdog to Facebook on Tuesday for failing to prevent its users' data being accessed by advertisers. During regulatory scrutiny of the WhatsApp deal in 2014, Facebook told the EU competition enforcer it was unable reliably to match the two companies' user accounts. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationBRUSSELS U.S. social network Facebook (FB.O) is set to be penalized by EU antitrust regulators for allegedly providing misleading data related to its WhatsApp acquisition three years ago, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. A 3D printed Whatsapp logo is seen in front of a displayed stock graph in this illustration taken April 28, 2016.

Europe fines Facebook €110m for misleading information on WhatsApp takeover
The European Commission has fined Facebook €110 million for providing "misleading information" regarding its takeover of WhatsApp in 2014. Facebook also agreed to pause its collection of WhatsApp user data in the UK for advertising purposes following a probe by the Information Commissioner's Office late last year. Read MoreUpon Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp in a $19 billion deal in 2014, Facebook informed the commission it would be unable to establish automated data matching between Facebook and WhatsApp user accounts, according to the commission. The commission also suggested that despite Facebook's statements in 2014 to the contrary, the possibility of automatically matching Facebook and WhatsApp user accounts was at the time a possibility -- something that Facebook was "well aware of". Last September, following the changes to WhatsApp's privacy policy, WhatsApp was ordered to stop sharing user data with Facebook in Germany by Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, and for Facebook to delete data already collected from the 35 million WhatsApp users within the country.


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