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FTC To Review Facebook-WhatsApp Privacy Concerns

Law360, New York (September 7, 2016, 9:28 PM EDT) -- The Federal Trade Commission has told a pair of privacy advocates that it will "carefully review" their allegations that mobile messaging service WhatsApp's move to share personal phone numbers and other user data with parent company Facebook for targeted marketing is unlawful, the groups said Wednesday.

Less than two weeks after they brought their concerns to the FTC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy on Wednesday released a letter from the regulator, dated Aug. 31, that acknowledged their complaint saying WhatsApp's new data-sharing policy ran afoul of both Section 5 of the FTC Act as well as repeated...

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