The Article 29 Working Party, which represents the data protection authorities of all 28 EU member states, says to follow the changes “extreme vigilance”.
“What is essential is that the individual in control of their data when combined with the large Internet companies,” the group said in a statement on Bloomberg .
Elizabeth Denham, head of the British regulator said examining the policy. “The changes that WhatsApp and Facebook will take a lot of people. Some will find that they get a better service, others may be concerned by the lack of control.”
The Authority Personal told the NIS also have questioned the new policy WhatsApp, has pursued the self no research. Instead, the work of the British regulator is followed.
America
Several action groups have in the United States filed an official complaint (pdf) against WhatsApp at the watchdog FTC. The organizations WhatsApp has an earlier promise not to share data lost to Facebook.
Shortly promised WhatsApp-founder after the acquisition by Facebook Jan Koum still that ‘privacy is in our DNA “and that collecting data was not a goal of the app. “As collaboration had meant with Facebook that we had to change our values, we had not done it,” he wrote in 2014.
Checkmark
In the new conditions of WhatsApp provides that account information such as the user’s phone can be shared with Facebook, including to personalize ads on the social network. The contents of messages will not be shared
Through a check mark -. That is not immediately visible when the new policy will be presented – the sharing of data may for marketing purposes be turned off, but the data can still be shared with Facebook for other purposes as preventing spam or improving the Facebook infrastructure.
Users have thirty days after accepting the privacy policy time to turn off sharing data in the settings WhatsApp. But according to the US complaint to the FTC message service had its new policy anyway ‘opt-in’ to make, allowing all users to actively have to choose to share their data.
WhatsApp says to abide by privacy laws and states that the new policy is understandable to users.
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