A NEW RECORD
WhatsApp on Thursday was fined roughly $267 million by Ireland’s privacy watchdog due to alleged violations of the European Union’s (EU) data privacy rules, the largest penalty issued yet by the group since the strict 2018 regulations took effect.
The Data Protection Commission said in a statement that it had concluded its investigation into WhatsApp’s privacy practices, which it first launched in December 2018.
The commission found that the platform violated EU data transparency rules about sharing user data with fellow Facebook-owned companies.
