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EU regulator rejects call from Germany to ban Facebook from processing WhatsApp data

Dev Kundaliya

16 July 2021 • 3 min read

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Instead, the EDPB has asked the Irish Data Protection Commission to investigate how Facebook uses personal information of WhatsApp users

The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) on Thursday rejected a request by a German data regulator to immediately ban Facebook from processing WhatsApp data, and instead directed Irish Data Protection...

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