WhatsApp is fined a record of 225 million for EU privacy breach
- M Oliveira e Carmo
- Sep 24, 2021
- 1 min read
It was settled that the European Committee had to increase the WhatsApp fine for violating the European Union data protection rules.
On September 2nd 2021, the data protection European Committee published their second binding decision from July 28th 2021. This decision consists in an authority process of Irish data (DPC) applicable to WhatsApp for violating the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
According to the process of litigation solving (article 65 of GDPR), the European Committee declared the importance of a change in the process of the decision of the Irish data protection authorities (DPC), which other authorities were involved in. This necessary change include increasing the fine as its whole and decreasing the deadline agreed with the company down to three months for them to change their privacy policy.
CNPD’s decision was based off the data of non-users, in which the superior control authorities, in parallel with WhatsApp’s consensus, maintain anonymised and the analysis of #3 of article 83 of GDPR, since DPC only takes in consideration the most serious fine, excluding the rest of the violations.
Based off article 65 of GDPR, this is the CEPD’s second decision, being a case with Twitter in 2020 the first one.
Source: CNPD
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