Few days ago EFF and Lookout announced a new report, Dark Caracal, that uncovers a new, global malware espionage campaign. One aspect of that campaign was the use of malicious, fake apps to impersonate legitimate popular apps like Signal and WhatsApp. Some readers had questions about what this means for them. This blog post is […]
Messaging app has one month to comply or it will face sanctions for sharing user phone numbers and usage data for ‘business intelligence’ purposes Source: France orders WhatsApp to stop sharing user data with Facebook without consent | Technology | The Guardian
The Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) notes the publication of the Article 29 Working Party’s most recent letter to WhatsApp on its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, that were updated by WhatsApp in August 2016. The DPC welcomes the letter’s useful analysis of the substantive data protection issues that were raised by the Privacy Policy. […]
EU privacy regulators rapped WhatsApp on the knuckles for not resolving concerns over the service’s sharing of user data with Facebook. Source: EU privacy regulators increase pressure on WhatsApp over data sharing
Article 29 Working Party steps up action over user consent and privacy following Facebook’s failure to address breaches of EU law. Source: WhatsApp faces EU taskforce over sharing user data with Facebook | Technology | The Guardian
Britain said WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption communication services allowed paedophiles and organised crime groups to operate beyond the reach of the law and called on the messaging service to move faster to help governments catch offenders. Source: UK says WhatsApp lets paedophiles and gangsters operate beyond the law
Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield simplified the Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp and YouTube websites’ terms and conditions with privacy law firm Schillings. But Instagram said the simplified version of its terms contained “a number of inaccuracies”. Source: Social media terms ‘jargon-busted’ for teens – BBC News
The UK Government demanded that WhatsApp comes up with a way to offer access to encrypted messages this summer – a request that was rejected by the instant messaging service. Source: WhatsApp rejected Government request to access encrypted messages
The Article 29 Working Party, a collection of EU-based data protection authorities, has written a public letter to WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum, reasserting its concerns with the company’s consent mechanism for sharing EU citizens’ data with parent company Facebook. Since announcing new data-sharing between the two organizations last year, WhatsApp has been under pressure from […]
WhatsApp and the government of the United Kingdom are in a battle over the future of encryption, and there doesn’t seem to be a clean resolution in sight. Source: The future of encryption depends on WhatsApp’s battle with the UK