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that's news to me, had to find a source: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/2/22653747/whatsapp-fine-amount-europe-gdpr-privacy https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/2/2
by baby 5y ago
that's news to me, had to find a source: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/2/22653747/whatsapp-fine-amount-europe-gdpr-privacy https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/2/22653747/whatsapp-fine-amo...
looks like WhatsApp is appealing, so not a case close.
> noting that WhatsApp did not properly inform EU citizens how it handles their personal data, including how it shares that information with its parent company.
I'm not sure I understand these kind of claims to begin with. WhatsApp is facebook, why would they have to warn users that the data is shared?
- thesausageking 5y agoThey did correct their policy to no longer lie to users after they were fined. I'm not sure that counts as "doing really well in terms of security and privacy for its users".
- baby 5y agoI think that's a bit disingenuous, who reads these policies anyway? And how much does this really matter compared to features like end-to-end encryption?
- thesausageking 5y agoThis wasn't a trivial technicality. They said users' phone numbers were being anonymized and they weren't. How they handle private data, especially if they lie about what they're doing, does really matter. End-to-end encryption doesn't mean anything if they secretly keep the a key able to decrypt it, which is basically what they were getting fined for.
- baby 5y agoI'd argue it is because it's buried in some policy text that no user ends up reading anyway.