European consumer groups filed a complaint against WhatsApp over a controversial privacy policy update on Monday, alleging the platform\u2019s \u201cintrusive\u201d notifications pushing the update breached European Union commercial practices.<\/p>\n
The European Consumer Organization (BEUC), an umbrella consumers group based in Brussels, along with eight of its members in various countries, filed the complaint against the platform, owned by Facebook, arguing it failed to explain in \u201cplain and intelligible language the nature of the changes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatsApp has been bombarding users for months with aggressive and persistent pop-up messages to force them to accept its new terms of use and privacy policy. They\u2019ve been telling users that their access to their app will be cut off if they do not accept the new terms. Yet consumers don\u2019t know what they\u2019re actually accepting,\u201d BEUC Director General Monique Goyens\u00a0said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" European consumer groups filed a complaint...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37566,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37565\/revisions\/37566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}