EU privacy regulators demands that WhatsApp suspend data sharing with Facebook

‘A pan-European privacy watchdog has expressed serious concerns over WhatsApp sharing users’ personal data with Facebook and asked it to cease data processing until the end of its investigation. It also warned Yahoo over a 2014 data breach.
Recent changes in WhatsApp’s privacy policy allowing it to “share information within the ‘Facebook family of companies’ for a range of purposes that include marketing and advertising” have become a source of “serious concern,” Article 29 Working Party (WP29), a pan-European privacy watchdog composed of representatives of the national data protection authorities and the European Commission, wrote in a letter sent to the messenger company and published on Thursday.’
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