This has been the last decision taken by the Facebook and WhatsApp development team as controversies arose, especially at the institutional level in the European Union, where rumors began to be heard about a possible wake-up call that the highest body community had given Facebook on the subject of sharing data from the messaging application with its social network. A) Yes We put an end, at least temporarily, to a controversy that has been accompanying us since August, and that is that Facebook will not receive your WhatsApp data, for now.
This has been the statement that the Spanish Data Protection Agency has made regarding the decision by Facebook due to the pressure received in Europe:
The European Data Protection Authorities have received confirmation that WhatsApp has not initiated any exchange of information from EU user accounts with Facebook for the company to use in order to improve the social network products and experiences. advertising of users, including those who agreed that such information was shared with Facebook for such purposes.
However, all point to the fact that this entire procedure is paralyzed only temporarily, we imagine that in the law firms that have Facebook as a client they are working piecemeal with the intention of finding out how they can carry out the transfer of data from legal form. So that, the CEO of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, has announced that the transfer of the data will be effective in the future, but first they want to answer all the questions that are pouring in from Europe, with the sole intention of trying to convince us that our data is safe in their hands, but hey, that's what everyone says ...
