EU says Facebook provided misleading information during Its WhatsApp takeover

  • 7 years ago
The European Commission said on Tuesday Facebook Inc provided it with misleading information during its takeover of the online messaging service WhatsApp, opening the company to a possible fine of 1 percent of its turnover. Commission spokesperson Lucia Caudet said the issue regards a WhatsApp privacy policy change in August when it said it would share some users' phone numbers with parent company Facebook, triggering investigations by a number of EU data protection authorities. The Commission said Facebook had indicated in its notification of the planned acquisition that it would be unable reliably to match the two companies' user accounts. Caudet said Facebook had until Jan. 31 to respond.

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