Turkey fine WhatsApp € 190.000. A New Irish Fine: Lessons Learned from the EDPB Binding Decision. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has imposed a fine of €225 million on WhatsApp’s European headquarters, following an investigation that took many years to complete.
In addition to the fine, WhatsApp has received a compliance order, which it needs to fulfill within 3 months. The sanctions are imposed for violations of the transparency principle and requirements under the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This in itself is noteworthy, but the case becomes more interesting, because the sanctions are a result of a Binding Decision by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) following objections against the draft findings and sanctions proposed by the Irish DPC.
Irish Commissioner Fines WhatsApp €225 Million For GDPR Violations. Irish Commissioner Fines WhatsApp €225 Million For GDPR Violations. The Irish DPC Slaps WhatsApp With a € 225 Million Fine – DATARAINBOW. WhatsApp issued second-largest GDPR fine of €225 M : “The DPC gets about 10,000 complaints per year since 2018 – and this is the first major fine”.
“It’s been a long time coming but Facebook is finally feeling some heat from Europe’s much trumpeted data protection regime”. The Irish DPC original intention was a far milder fine pushed up by the EDPB Binding decision 1/2021 on the dispute arisen on the draft decision of the Irish Supervisory Authority regarding WhatsApp Ireland under Article 65(1)(a) GDPR. Dpc final decision redacted for issue to edpb 01 09 21 en. Binding decision 1/2021 on the dispute arisen on the draft decision of the Irish Supervisory Authority regarding WhatsApp Ireland under Article 65(1)(a) GDPR. An official website of the European UnionAn official EU websiteHow do you know?
All official European Union website addresses are in the europa.eu domain. Skip to main content Please find the decision of the IE SA in the EDPB Register for Decisions taken by supervisory authorities and courts on issues handled in the consistency mechanism or directly here. The corrigendum to the IE SA decision is directly available here. Binding decision 1/2021 on the dispute arisen on the draft decision of the Irish Supervisory Authority regarding WhatsApp Ireland under Article 65(1)(a) GDPR 773.52 KB. Facebook's WhatsApp Fined for Breaking E.U. Data Privacy Law. Statement: DPC issues € 225 million fine on WhatsApp. Press Release by Irish DPC EDPB Decision (redacted) More Information in First Media Reports.
WhatsApp’s €225 Million GDPR Fine — Disagreements Over Legitimate Interests and Transparency. Data Protection Commission announces decision in WhatsApp inquiry. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced a conclusion to a GDPR investigation it conducted into WhatsApp Ireland Ltd.
The DPC’s investigation commenced on 10 December 2018 and it examined whether WhatsApp has discharged its GDPR transparency obligations with regard to the provision of information and the transparency of that information to both users and non-users of WhatsApp’s service. This includes information provided to data subjects about the processing of information between WhatsApp and other Facebook companies. Following a lengthy and comprehensive investigation, the DPC submitted a draft decision to all Concerned Supervisory Authorities (CSAs) under Article 60 GDPR in December 2020.
EDPB adopts Art. 65 decision regarding WhatsApp Ireland. During its latest plenary session, the EDPB adopted a dispute resolution decision on the basis of Art. 65 GDPR.
The binding decision seeks to address the lack of consensus on certain aspects of a draft decision issued by the Irish (IE) SA as lead supervisory authority (LSA) regarding WhatsApp Ireland Ltd. (WhatsApp IE) and the subsequent objections expressed by a number of concerned supervisory authorities (CSAs). The LSA issued the draft decision following an own-volition inquiry into WhatsApp IE, concerning whether WhatsApp IE complied with its transparency obligations pursuant to Art. 12, 13 & 14 GDPR. On 24 December 2020, the LSA shared its draft decision with the CSAs in accordance with Art. 60 (3) GDPR.
The CSAs issued objections pursuant to Art. 60 (4) GDPR concerning, among others, the identified infringements of the GDPR, whether specific data at stake were to be considered personal data and the consequences thereof, and the appropriateness of the envisaged corrective measures. In.mobile.reuters. BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers voted on Thursday to bring online messaging and email services such as WhatsApp and Skype into the scope of tough telecoms privacy rules that will restrict how they can track users.
The vote in the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee was hailed as a step forward by privacy activists but heavily criticized by industry for being too restrictive and inconsistent with a separate data protection regulation. Under the reworked “ePrivacy” proposal, telecoms operators and internet players will have to guarantee the confidentiality of the customers’ communications and ask for users’ consent before tracking them online to serve them personalized ads.
The rules aim to provide a level playing field between telecoms firms and online players such as WhatsApp, Google and Skype. Currently only telecoms companies are subject to the ePrivacy law. “Content that must be given away for nothing will ultimately end up being worth nothing.” Ireland’s data chief backs WP29’s tough stance on WhatsApp data sharing. Data Protection Commissioner confirms Facebook and WhatsApp have suspended data sharing as talks continue.
The creation of an EU taskforce over WhatsApp’s alleged data sharing with Facebook has the support of Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) Helen Dixon, a spokesperson confirmed. Last week, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), a group of pan-European data regulators, established the taskforce led by the UK’s information commissioner office because it felt that concerns over consent for data sharing between WhatsApp and Facebook had still not been resolved.
‘WhatsApp and Facebook Ireland have reconfirmed that the current data-sharing suspension will continue during this ongoing engagement with the DPC’– OFFICE OF THE DPC Facebook was fined £94m (€110m) by the EU earlier this year for providing misleading information about its 2014 takeover of WhatsApp.
In a letter dated 24 October, WP29 told WhatsApp that its concerns about user consent for data sharing had not been resolved. Data transfer from WHATSAPP to FACEBOOK: CNIL publicly serves formal notice for lack of legal basis. WhatsApp privacy case must be decided in a month, EU watchdog says. Amp.ft.