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€225 million fine on WhatsApp due to GDPR violation

1 September 2021

The instant messaging company WhatsApp which is now owned by Facebook has violated the actual General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Irish data protection commission has now fined €225 million on WhatsApp for the lack of transparency on how it shares the European union’s user data with other Facebook companies

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