Turkey Probes Facebook's Move To Collect WhatsApp Data (reuters.com) 11
The Turkish Competition Board said on Monday it launched an investigation into WhatsApp and its owner Facebook after the messaging app asked users to agree to let Facebook collect user data including phone numbers and locations. From a report: In a written statement, the Competition Board said it ruled the data-collection requirement should be suspended until the probe is complete. "The Competition Board has opened an investigation into Facebook and WhatsApp and suspended the requirement to share Whatsapp data," it said. WhatsApp updated its terms of service last Wednesday, allowing Facebook and its subsidiaries to collect user data. The deadline for agreeing to the new terms is Feb. 8.
I am surprised Europe is not doing anything (Score:4, Informative)
I am surprised that the elephant knitting lady has not gone nuclear on this one.
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Turkey is not a member of the EU.
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I imagine that Facebook follows different policies and procedures depending on what country they operate in. WhatsApp may not do the same data sharing inside the EU.
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"The issue regards a WhatsApp privacy policy change in August when it said it would share some users’ phone numbers with parent company Facebook, triggering investigations by a number of EU data protection authorities.
The Commission said Facebook had indicated in its notification of the planned acquisition that it would be unable reliably to match the two companies’ user accounts.
“The Commission’s preliminary view is that Facebook gave us incorrect or misle
Re: I am surprised Europe is not doing anything (Score:2)
To busy trying to fix the brexit f'up (at the same time as Covid-19 response)
Facebook will... (Score:1)
... probe them right back.
Turkey should just suggest alternatives (Score:2)
like Signal or Telegram.
Oh wait, that's too private, need something with a backdoor... Skype!
'Suspend' how? (Score:2)
I hate this. Unfortunately I have too many contacts using it to withdraw, but I really, really want to.
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Same here, and a lot (probably the majority) don't really care about privacy in any way anyhow. They post their daily lives to Farcebook, complete with photos that have location metadata attached. I'm sure they assume FB already has that data anyway, if they've ever even thought about it.
The move to Signal was smooth and easy (Score:4, Informative)