Germany bans Facebook from processing WhatsApp data

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German data regulator says Facebook's new privacy policy could violate European data protection rules

The lead German data protection regulator, Der Hamburgische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (HmbBfDI), has said that it will use an emergency GDPR procedure to prevent Facebook...

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