Court to Facebook: Stop harvesting users’ WhatsApp personal data without consent
Facebook has lost its bid to collect the personal data of WhatsApp users in Germany — for now.
In August last year, Facebook-owned WhatsApp changed its terms and privacy policy to say that the parent company would gain access to users’ telephone numbers and other pieces of data, such as the mobile operating system being used, the user’s phone number, and screen resolution.
The idea was to improve Facebook’s ad targeting and to make it easier for the social network to suggest friend connections.
Source: Court to Facebook: Stop harvesting users’ WhatsApp personal data without consent
