By Robert Bateman
WhatsApp faces a fine of up to $60.7 million for breaching EU privacy rules in a penalty that could be among the largest ever issued, but some privacy experts say that the fine still is too lenient.
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in effect since 2018, requires companies to clearly disclose how they share personal data.
According to news reports, the draft fine relates to WhatsApp’s alleged failure to meet these requirements when explaining how its messenger app shares data with Facebook, which acquired the company in 2014.
“The current alleged proposed penalty is around 375 minutes’ worth of revenue for Facebook,” said Alexander Hanff, CEO of the Swedish consultancy Think Privacy. “It is little more than a rounding error in the grand scheme of things.”
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