EU Data Board Urges Tougher WhatsApp Irish Decision
The Irish Data Protection Commission should strengthen its draft decision on WhatsApp privacy breaches, said the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) Thursday. It adopted a dispute resolution decision in July to address objections from several other data protection authorities to…
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Ireland's proposed ruling on WhatsApp Ireland. The board decision recommended the DPC add another privacy infringement finding, and found that in this case, "in light of the gravity and the overarching nature and impact of the infringements, there has been an infringement of the transparency principle enshrined" in the general data protection regulation. When using WhatsApp's contact feature, data of non-users isn't anonymized. The EDPB urged the DPC to rethink how it calculated the social media site's fine, and asked that the time for WhatsApp to comply be cut from six to three months.