EU Writes to WhatsApp, Yahoo Over Possible Data-Protection Violations
October 28 2016 - 5:00AM
Dow Jones News
By Natalia Drozdiak
BRUSSELS--European privacy regulators on Friday said they had
sent Facebook Inc.'s (FB) WhatsApp and Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) letters
expressing concerns about possible violations of the bloc's
data-protection rules.
A European Union body representing national data-protection
authorities from the bloc's 28 states said it sent WhatsApp a
letter expressing "serious concerns" about the messaging service's
new terms that allow it to share user information with its parent,
Facebook Inc. The EU urged the company to pause the data-sharing
until "legal protections" could be assured.
In a letter to Yahoo, the regulators outlined concerns about a
2014 data breach the company announced in September in addition to
allegations the company scanned Yahoo customers' incoming emails at
the request of U.S. intelligence services, the body said.
The regulators said they demanded more information from the
companies on the issues.
The national data-protection authorities could open up their
probes and have the power to fine the companies if they find they
violated the bloc's privacy rules.
Write to Natalia Drozdiak at natalia.drozdiak@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
October 28, 2016 04:45 ET (08:45 GMT)
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