Both Facebook, equally good equally WhatsApp, get got been told to at in i lawsuit halt collecting as well as storing information on unopen to 35 Million WhatsApp users inwards Germany.
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection as well as Freedom of Information Johannes Caspar fifty-fifty ordered Facebook on Tuesday to delete all information that has already been forwarded to WhatsApp since August.
Also inwards India, the Delhi High Court on September 23 ordered WhatsApp to delete all users’ information from its servers upwardly until September 25 when the company’s novel privacy policy came into effect.
When Facebook starting fourth dimension acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion inwards cash inwards 2014, WhatsApp made a hope that its users’ information would non hold upwardly shared betwixt both companies.
But at nowadays evidently this has changed, which, according to Caspar, is non exclusively "misleading" for their users as well as public, precisely besides "constitutes an infringement of national information protection law" inwards Germany.
"Such an central is exclusively admissible if both companies, the i that provides the information (WhatsApp) equally good equally the receiving society (Facebook) get got established a legal footing for doing so." the press unloose [PDF] from the Commission reads.
"Facebook, however, neither has obtained an effective blessing from the WhatsApp users nor does a legal footing for the information reception exist."
Apparently, the novel mensurate was taken past times the companies inwards favor of to a greater extent than targeted advertising on the largest social network as well as to produce out spam.
In reply to the privacy watchdog’s decision, Facebook released a arguing that it complied amongst European Union information protection law, saying: "We are opened upwardly to working amongst the Hamburg DPA inwards an examine to address their questions as well as resolve whatsoever concerns."
According to the watchdog, since Facebook as well as WhatsApp are independent companies, they should procedure their users' information based on their ain price as well as weather condition equally good equally information privacy policies.
However, WhatsApp users request non to worry nearly the content of their WhatsApp messages, similar chats as well as images, equally they are end-to-end encrypted, which agency fifty-fifty the society cannot read them.
