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Privacy Groups Ask FTC to Suspend Facebook's Acquisition of WhatsApp

The privacy groups' complaint is twofold: that selling the service to Facebook amounts to a 'deceptive failure to represent "that WhatsApp’s governing principles of anonymity and privacy were subject to reversal;" and that it amounts to "unfair failure to adequately protect user data in the event of an acquisition." The concern is that Facebook will incorporate WhatsApp user data and start scanning WhatsApp messages (something WhatsApp does not currently do) in order to improve and expand its own targeted advertising revenue model.

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Dom Nicastro | April 03, 2020

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