WhatsApp faces EU taskforce over sharing user data with Facebook

Article 29 Working Party steps up action over user consent and privacy following Facebook’s failure to address breaches of EU lawThe European Union’s data regulator group is again focusing its attention on WhatsApp for the messaging app’s sharing of user data with parent company Facebook, launching a taskforce to implement “a clear, comprehensive resolution” to comply with EU law.The taskforce has been set up by the pan-European data regulator, the Article 29 Workin