WhatsApp data will not reach Facebook throughout Europe
Users of WhatsApp will not share their data with Facebook, at least temporarily. The transfer of information between companies is paused due to the problems faced by the social networksince, in the month of August, this practice began. Something that not only users have not liked, but has also put different state agencies on a war footing of the entire continent on suspicion of a possible vulnerability of the privacy of citizens
The confirmation comes from the newspaper El Confidencial, where they publish a statement that comes directly from Facebook stating that “as a result of our discussions with various agencies over the past few months, we have temporarily paused in Europe the use of WhatsApp user data for product or advertising purposes on Facebook, to give them the opportunity to articulate their concerns and discuss them” A decision that comes a few days after the same thing happened in the United Kingdom at the request of the Information Commissioner of that country.
This way, Facebook will not know the user's contacts , nor will you have access to the profile pictures, status phrases, or even logon and logoff times of the user WhatsApp Information that, since this summer, has begun to collect for reasons that are not entirely clear to users and different data protection organizations and information.And it is that Facebook affirms that all this content will serve to improve the suggestions of friendship in your social network, in addition to offering much more relevant to each user, as well as improve other aspects of your service. However, it seems not to convince Europe
Facebook already raised blisters in August after affirming its decision to transfer information from WhatsApp with a simple notice in the messaging application A message informing quite vague what data would be collected and what would be the purpose. All this without being able to avoid this issue, just delaying it 30 days to accept consciously the fact. A process that has raised the alarm of organizations in Germany, the United Kingdom or France, the first to denounce the possible violations that users may be suffering from Facebook and WhatsApp
Despite the fact that both companies defended the idea of independence after the purchase of WhatsApp bywas confirmed Facebook in February 2014, it finally seems that the potential of WhatsApp was not solely its use for all the planet, if not all the data of the users who use it (which, we are not going to deceive either, was to be expected after Facebook spent a whopping more than 10,000 million euros ). And it is that the different protection organizations, such as the Information Commissioner of the United Kingdom, have demanded clarification from Facebook to know how these data will be used in a specific way. And even more, how they are collected and stored.
While investigations and user concerns continue, Facebook has decided to pause the data collection process from WhatsApp, although the process had already been underway for weeks.
