Facebook faces charges over deliberately misleading EC during WhatsApp takeover

The European Commission (EC) is bearing its regulatory teeth at another Silicon Valley behemoth, this time charging Facebook with allegedly making misleading claims over its ability to match consumers’ Facebook and WhatsApp accounts, during 2014 investigations into its takeover of the messaging service. 
The Brussels-based body has today (December 20) issued a formal Statement of Objections to Facebook making the claim with the social network having been given a January 31,