The European Commission believes that Facebook offered “misleading information” during the research conducted in 2014 on the purchase of the messaging service WhatsApp, and could fine the company as announced today.
At the time, the company Mark Zuckerberg said that “does not have the capacity to automatically associate (…) user accounts of both platforms”, what he ended up doing in August of 2016, explains the Commission.
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The opening of a new investigation will not have “impact” on the green light given to the operation in 2014, said however Brussels.
Facebbook has until January 31, 2017, to respond to the “fears” of Brussels.
If it is confirmed the hoax, the Commission could impose a fine of up to 1% of their turnover, which in 2015 was 17.900 million dollars.
“This research has nothing to do neither with the related issues of protection of the private life, or data consumers”, he added.
In October 2014, Brussels had given his approval to the purchase of WhatsApp by Facebook, an operation of 22,000 million dollars.
Source: AFP
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