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Facebook Can't Collect WhatsApp Data: German Regulator

Law360, New York (September 27, 2016, 10:38 PM EDT) -- A German data protection regulator on Tuesday ordered Facebook to stop using and immediately destroy any data on German users that it had obtained from its subsidiary WhatsApp, saying that the new data-sharing arrangement flies in the face of the duo's earlier promises to keep the information separate.

Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Johannes Caspar issued his administrative order prohibiting Facebook from collecting and storing German WhatsApp users' data and requiring it to delete any such data that it has already obtained less than a month after WhatsApp announced its intention to start sharing users' phone numbers...

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