WhatsApp fined over customer data terms quoting : "theeagleonline"

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WhatsApp fined 3m Euros in Italy over Facebook data sharing -
US-based mobile messaging service, WhatsApp, was fined 3 million Euros ($3.3 million) on Friday in Italy for insufficient transparency on data sharing with its parent company, Facebook. WhatsApp was taken over by Facebook in 2014 and two years later, it introduced new terms of service and privacy policies that gave Facebook access to WhatsApp users' data. The EU executive accused Facebook of misleadingly telling the commission that it could not smoothly integrate its own users' data with that of WhatsApp. Italy's Antitrust Regulator, AGCM, said in a statement that "the opportunity for WhatsApp users to refuse the handover of data to Facebook was available 'but it was inadequately flagged". In December, the European Commission, which regulates antitrust matters in the EU, launched an investigation into Facebook's conduct prior to the WhatsApp buyout.


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