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Germany orders Facebook to stop collecting WhatsApp user data

By Sven Jacobs (DE) on October 25, 2016

The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Hamburg DPA) recently issued an administrative order prohibiting Facebook from collecting and storing user data of German WhatsApp users.

The Hamburg DPA also ordered Facebook to also delete all data that has already been forwarded to Facebook by WhatsApp.

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