The regulator’s antitrust of the European Union accused Facebook of providing misleading information during the purchase of WhatsApp, which could result in a fine of 1 per cent of their turnover.
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The statement of objections sent to Facebook will not have any impact on the approval of the merger of $ 22 billion in 2014, said the European Commission in a statement.
The case focuses on a change in the privacy policy carried out in August by WhatsApp, when he said that I would share some phone numbers with its parent, Facebook, sparking investigations of a number of entities of data protection in the EU.
The Commission said that Facebook had indicated in its notification of the acquisition that could not reliably be compatible with the two user bases of both companies.
“In the statement of charges today (Tuesday), the Commission adopts the point of view of preliminary that, to the contrary of the claims of Facebook and your response during the review of the merger, the technical possibility of making compatible the automatically identifying users of Facebook with the users of WhatsApp was already possible in 2014,” he said.
“At this point, the Commission therefore fears that Facebook intentionally, or negligently, submitted incorrect or misleading information to the Commission, in breach of their obligations under the law of mergers in the EU”, he added.
Facebook has until January 31 to respond. If the Commission’s concerns are confirmed, it could impose a fine to the u.s. of up to 1 percent of their income.
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