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EU Regulators Warn WhatsApp, Yahoo Over Privacy Missteps

Law360, New York (October 28, 2016, 10:47 PM EDT) -- Europe's data protection authorities on Thursday became the latest body to raise red flags over WhatsApp's move to share user data with parent company Facebook and Yahoo's handling of a 2014 data breach, informing both companies that a new working group would be closely scrutinizing both issues.

In separate letters sent to the companies, the collective of EU data protection authorities known as the Article 29 Working Party pushed WhatsApp and Yahoo to work with them to address the regulators' "serious concerns" over WhatsApp's recent privacy policy changes and Yahoo's response to a 2014 data breach that was disclosed in September...

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