Ireland Fines 225 Million Euro For Privacy Breaches, WhatsApp Calls It "Entirely Disproportionate" скачать в хорошем качестве

Ireland Fines 225 Million Euro For Privacy Breaches, WhatsApp Calls It "Entirely Disproportionate"

Ireland fined Facebook’s WhatsApp a record 225 million euro ($266 million) on Thursday for privacy breaches after the EU privacy watchdog pressured the country to take a tougher line with a bigger penalty. WhatsApp said the fine was “entirely disproportionate” and that it would appeal. Still, the Irish fine is significantly less than the record $886.6 million euro fine meted out to Amazon by the Luxembourg privacy agency in July. Ireland’s Data Privacy Commissioner (DPC), which is the lead data privacy regulator for Facebook within the European Union, said the issues related to whether WhatsApp conformed in 2018 with EU data rules about transparency. “This includes information provided to data subjects about the processing of information between WhatsApp and other Facebook companies,” the Irish regulator said in a statement. A WhatsApp spokesperson said in a statement that the issues in question-related to policies in place in 2018.”WhatsApp is committed to providing a secure and private service. We have worked to ensure the information we provide is transparent and comprehensive and will continue to do so,” the spokesperson said. “We disagree with the decision today regarding the transparency we provided to people in 2018 and the penalties are entirely disproportionate,” the spokesperson’s statement said. EU privacy watchdog the European Data Protection Board said it had given several pointers to the Irish agency in July in order to address criticism from its peers for taking too long to decide in cases involving tech giants and for not fining them enough for any breaches. It said a WhatsApp fine should take into account Facebook’s turnover and that the company should be given three months instead of six months to comply. Data regulators from eight other European countries triggered a dispute resolution mechanism after Ireland shared its provisional decision in relation to the WhatsApp inquiry, which started in December 2018. #WhatsApp #Ireland #DataPrivacy Subscribe to Swarajya on YouTube. Get a Swarajya subscription: https://subscriptions.swarajyamag.com... Website: https://swarajyamag.com/ Twitter:   / swarajyamag   Facebook:   / swarajyamag