German DPA investigates WhatsApp Terms of Use
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HmbBfDI) has brought proceedings against Facebook Ireland Ltd. which aims to issue an immediately executable order requesting not to collect any data from WhatsApp users to process it for their own purposes.
The case stems for WhatsApp’s new terms of use announced earlier this year. Terms of use contain extensive passages with which the service is granted the right to share user data with other Facebook companies. The HmbBfDI is responsible for Facebook in Germany, as the German branch of Facebook is based in Hamburg.
Source: Dringlichkeitsverfahren gegen Facebook
