WhatsApp Lands Itself in Hot Waters in Germany for Its Privacy Policy

There is no denying that no i has taken the new privacy policy lightly past WhatsApp; it has raised many concerns regarding privacy amidst the consumers and the regulators. Even though WhatsApp discussed not taking action against those who do non take the privacy policy, we figured that the app'due south functionality would be severely crippled for anyone who refuses to accept this change.

Germany has decided to step in as the land's lead data protection regulator has temporarily banned Facebook from processing personal data from WhatsApp.

Deutschland Bans Facebook for Collecting Information from WhatsApp Users

As per a study from Reuters, Deutschland's lead information protection regulator went ahead and opened urgent proceedings against Facebook last month and has at present ordered the social network to stop processing personal data from WhatsApp users. The regulator sees the new terms every bit illegal. The regulator is as well invoking the powers that the GDPR has granted to impose a three-month ban on Facebook's information collection do through WhatsApp. This decision comes in a few days before WhatsApp'south May 15th deadline of accepting the new terms.

In addition to that, the Data Protection Dominance will also seek an EU-wide ruling at the European Information Protection board.

On the other hand, WhatsApp is still suggesting that the activity was taken by the data protection authority "rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose and effect of its update, and therefore had no legitimate basis." Additionally, WhatsApp notwithstanding plans on going alee with the update of the new policies and claims that the claims made by Data Protection Government are incorrect.

This is non the first time Facebook is in hot waters on their new privacy policy, and clearly not the last 1. Equally far equally how far this boxing goes, we are nevertheless to uncover.