Excellent: The European Union smacks Amazon & Whatsapp for almost 1 billion Euro in fines!
[This is an excerpt from another article, but here is the cool part. Amazon and JewBook got whacked for some naughty stuff they've been getting up to. Here are the 3 relevant short paragraphs! Jan]
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Facebook’s WhatsApp was ordered to pay a 225 million-euro (R4 billion) penalty for failing to be transparent about how it handled personal information, its first fine under beefed-up European Union data protection law.
The Irish Data Protection Commission — Silicon Valley’s main privacy watchdog in Europe — said it found violations in the way WhatsApp explained how it processed users’ and non-users’ data, as well as how data was shared between WhatsApp and other Facebook companies.
The fine comes weeks after Amazon.com Inc. was hit with a record 746 million-euro penalty in Luxembourg, where it has its European base, for processing personal data in violation of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation.
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