Brussels. The European Commission charged this Tuesday, the giant us Facebook provide false or misleading information during the investigation process, to approve the purchase of WhatsApp in 2014. Before that the Commission approve the purchase of WhatsApp in October 2014, the company Mark Zuckerberg said that “it would be impossible to establish a linkage automatic and reliable” between the information of the accounts of users of both social networks. However, in August of this year, WhatsApp announced that its users could link their phone numbers with their profiles of Facebook.
The Commission argues that Facebook and WhatsApp have already had the potential of automatically linking the data of its users in 2014 and believes that Facebook failed to comply with the laws of the jurisdiction to provide, intentionally or negligently, false information or distorted during the investigation. Facebook has until the end of January to respond to the allegations. Approval of the purchase of WhatsApp will not be affected but Facebook could face a fine of up to one percent of their turnover. In 2015 the turnover of the social network amounted to around us $ 18 billion and in the first three trimestes 2016 sales accounted for 18 thousand 800 million dollars.
“Always put ourselves at the disposal correct information about our technical possibilities and our plans”, said today a spokesman of Facebook. And that would apply both to the acquisition in 2014 as plans to link the data this year. The company is confident that its claims will be confirmed when you make a detailed verification. Facebook bought WhatsApp for about $ 22 billion two years ago. Then she made sure that by the time the data of both networks would remain separate and that WhatsApp would remain independent.
today it continues to ensure that Facebook does not have access to the content of the messages exchanged via WhatsApp, among other things because these are encrypted. Facebook claims that with the help of WhatsApp data will improve the reception of advertising and suggestion of friendliness of their users.
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