Article 20SZA Facebook 'pauses' WhatsApp data sharing after ICO intervention

Facebook 'pauses' WhatsApp data sharing after ICO intervention

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Alex Hern
from Technology | The Guardian on (#20SZA)

Information Commissioner's Office raised concerns over social network's collection of messaging app's data

Facebook has agreed to "pause" its plan to use data from UK users of messaging service WhatsApp for advertising and product improvement purposes across the rest of its business, after an intervention from the UK information commissioner.

Elizabeth Denham wrote to Facebook in September to express her concerns over a new plan to share more data between the social network and Whatsapp.

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