(Photo : Pixabay/arivera) WhatsApp ban EU for three months
A German regulator ordered Facebook to stop processing data on its citizens via the messaging service WhatsApp.
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, or HmbBfDI, said on Tuesday, May 11, that it has issued an injunction that prevents Facebook from processing personal data from WhatsApp.
Facebook stated that it is considering to file an appeal.
Facebook s WhatsApp Gets Three-Month Ban
Mark Zuckerberg s social media giant has been looking for new ways to monetize WhatsApp, which is used by more than 60 million people in Germany alone, ever since Facebook acquired the platform for $19 billion in 2014.
– German Federal Minister of Finance Olaf Scholz.
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January 14, 2021
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic taught the world another lesson about the unpredictability of life. Each country responded to the challenges posed by the pandemic in its own way. The German Government in its familiar technocratic and sober approach quickly unlocked massive financial resources to mitigate any immediate economic damage. It supported a further relaxation of the purse strings at EU level and put legislative acts in place that helped manage the uncertainty in the most affected industries for now. Hit by a second wave of the pandemic in an unexpectedly hard way, Germany is now left wondering whether the country really was smart in the spring or just lucky. The new year 2021 will provide the answer to this question.