France amends the plan to WhatsApp and orders it to stop sharing data with Facebook

One of the most notorious controversies in recent times is the one that refers to WhatsApp and the fact of sharing the data of its users with Facebook, the company to which it belongs. The mistrust of the social network and the use it can make of our data come from afar, so WhatsApp's adoption of this way of proceeding made the alarms will go off.

In the first place, users at the individual level in many cases, did not see this practice with good eyes, a fact that has managed to In many cases, their political representatives end up raising their voices in the same way through the competent bodies.We have seen it at a supranational level (in the case of the EU) in countries like Germany and Spain and now it is France's turn.

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The neighboring country amends the plan to WhatsApp and therefore to Facebook through an organization such as the Commission Nationale de l&39;Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) which in Spanish is the National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties. From the neighboring country and through this body request the company to cease its policy of sharing data with its parent company, Facebook "

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The agency affirms that this way of collecting data from customers of the courier service violates the fundamental freedoms of users and has given the company one month to cease its activity."

The controversy comes from afar, since WhatsApp updated its Terms of Service to add a clause that allows you to share the data of your users with Facebook, regardless of whether or not they have an account on the social network with the aim of improving the directed and personalized.

Facebook is therefore once again under the spotlight of the news, it is enough to remember that this year the European Union fined Facebook with more than 110 million euros for providing incorrect or misleading information during the investigation of the acquisition of WhatsApp" carried out by Brussels in 2014. A sanction to which is added the one imposed in September 2017 in Spain by the Agency Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD), which sanctioned Mark Zuckerberg's company with 1.2 million euros for violating data protection regulations.