to begin with this class , WhatsAppbetrayed its longstanding commitmentto privacy when it announce that it would share user data with its parent party Facebook for the purpose of selling ads . Today , a German governor announced it is set the brakes on Facebook ’s architectural plan .
FromThe New York Times :
The metropolis of Hamburg ’s datum tribute commissioner ordered Facebook on Tuesday to stop collecting and storing information on WhatsApp drug user in Germany , the first time a concealment guard dog has waded into the argumentation . The regulator , which has self-assurance over Facebook ’s activities across Germany , also called on the social connection to erase all information already forwarded from WhatsApp on rough 35 million German user .
I ca n’t say I ’m not at least a piffling morsel envious of the Germans for delivering this privacy smackdown to Facebook . The reality is that by Facebook tangle up your datum from yet another diligence to append to its massive databases so that it can better make money off your personal information has exactly zero benefit to you as a exploiter and helps Facebook trace its already bubble over pockets . The party has n’t been forthcoming with what data point it is collecting on the button , and some of the data points it is uncoerced to admit it is collecting make me slightly nauseous from a concealment point of view .
https://gizmodo.com/heres-some-of-the-information-facebook-will-be-collecti-1785742396
“ After the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook two geezerhood ago , both party have publically assured that information will not be portion out between them , ” Johannes Caspar , the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information , say in astatement . “ The fact that this is now happening is not only a misleading of their users and the public , but also constitutes an violation of internal data protection law . ”
Sure , Facebook has to recoup the $ 19 billion it spend to acquire WhatsApp in 2014 . But sweeping up even more of your data from a purportedly privacy conscious app maybe is n’t the best manner to do it if Facebook really cared about the privacy of its users .
“ In addition , there are many millions of people whose contact details were upload to WhatsApp from the drug user ’s savoir-faire books , although they might not even have a connection to Facebook or WhatsApp , ” Caspar said . “ fit in to Facebook , this gigantic amount of data point has not yet been take in . Facebook ’s reply , that this has merely not been done for the prison term being , is cause for vexation that the gravity of the datum protection rift will have much a more severe wallop . ”
[ The New York Times ]
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