IRISH people will be kicked off WhatsApp unless they agree to a controversial new privacy policy update that lets it connect to Facebook businesses. The WhatsApp update has been condemned in Germany as being illegal for breaching the EU privacy rule that says Facebook cannot automatically share data with WhatsApp just because it owns it. The Irish Data Protection Commissioner is less sure. The Irish Data Protection Commissioner, which is Facebook’s main regulator for the EU, says it boils down to the definition of “sharing”. Facebook says it is going ahead with the WhatsApp update anyway.

Source: Irish Independent May 13, 2021 01:32 UTC