The controversial decision of Facebook to share certain data of the users of WhatsApp (application of which the firm owns) with the popular social network for commercial purposes begins to become complicated in some countries.
The most recent case is Germany, where the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (HmbBfDI), in charge of that european country to protect the data protection of users, not only requires Facebook to stop sharing data of German users among your social network and your messaging app, but also ordered to remove all information that has been collected through this method more than 35 million German users of WhatsApp.
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The agency believes that Facebook violated its promise not to share data between services, something that is said in public after the purchase.”
“The fact that this is happening now not only a deception to its users and the public, but it is also a violation of the national law of data protection”, adds the HmbBfDI in the statement.
The only way that the exchange of information is accepted is that there is a “legal basis” to do so and to get the explicit permission of the users. Johannes Caspar, head of the agency, ensures that this is a decision you have to take the users and, therefore, “Facebook must ask permission before you”, something that “has not passed”, he adds.
Now you need to know what will be the response of Facebook and WhatsApp, but what is certain is that the company headed by Mark Zuckerberg is exposed to sanctions not only judicial, but also of demands of consumer associations.
In any case, both the network partner, such as the application the have something complicated.
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