Since Facebook got hold of WhatsApp Consumer Email List back in 2014, the famous messaging app has invariably remained in the eye of the Consumer Email List hurricane due to its lax protection policy for many (that's how many judge it at least). And there Consumer Email List must be some laxity on data protection on the part of WhatsApp because the Irish Data Protection Commission ( DPC ) has imposed a record fine.
225 million euros (about 267 million euros) on the Consumer Email List Facebook subsidiary. of dollars). The sanction anchors WhatsApp's breach of the Consumer Email List EU's General Data Protection Regulation, as the app has not bothered to inform its users how it shares information with Facebook. The investigation from which this fine derives Consumer Email List began in 2018 with the ultimate goal of determining whether.
The application "fulfilled its transparency Consumer Email List obligations" when informing its users how it uses their data. Initially, the DPC was Consumer Email List considering a much smaller sanction (about 50 million euros) , but finally this has been raised Consumer Email List significantly after the regulatory authorities of other EU countries blamed Ireland for its little hard hand with WhatsApp,