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Ireland<\/a> fined WhatsApp<\/a> for breaching strict European Union<\/a> privacy rules in a case that has exposed divisions among EU watchdogs over how to regulate its parent company, Meta<\/a>.
The chat app was ordered to pay 5.5 million euros ($5.9 million) Thursday by the Data Protection Commission<\/a> for forcing users to allow personal data to be used to provide \"service improvements and security\" - but only after some of its European counterparts balked at its initial decision to let the company off.
In a related decision earlier this month that played out in a similar manner, the Irish watchdog hit Meta Platforms Inc.<\/a> with $390 million in fines for forcing Facebook and Instagram users to agree to personalized ads based on their online activity.
All three cases date back to May 2018, when the 27-country bloc's stringent privacy regulations took force.
The commission, which is Meta's lead European privacy regulator because the company's regional headquarters is in Dublin, originally sided with the Silicon Valley<\/a> giant. But a slew of other EU data protection watchdogs objected to its draft decisions and the Irish watchdog was forced to overturn them and issue stiffer punishments.
In its final decision on the WhatsApp case, the commission also ordered the company to bring its data processing operations into compliance with EU privacy<\/a> rules within six months.
WhatsApp said it disagreed with the decision and plans to appeal.
\"We strongly believe that the way the service operates is both technically and legally compliant,\" it said in a statement.
The Irish watchdog's decision was written in dry technical language but signs of the tension with its EU counterparts were evident in a section near the end, where it said that a board of EU data protection regulators \"purported to direct\" it to carry out a fresh investigation of all of WhatsApp's data processing operations.
It's not up to the board to \"instruct and direct an authority to engage in open-ended and speculative investigation,\" the Irish watchdog said, adding it would ask the EU's top court to annul the order because it's \"problematic in jurisdictional terms.\"
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爱尔兰的WhatsApp点球强调欧盟隐私动荡
聊天应用程序被责令支付550万欧元(590万美元)周四为迫使用户数据保护委员会允许个人数据被用来提供“服务改进和安全”——但只有在一些欧洲同行拒绝最初决定让该公司。
爱尔兰罚款WhatsApp对违反严格欧盟隐私规则的情况下暴露了欧盟监管机构之间的分歧如何监管它的母公司,元。
聊天应用程序被责令支付550万欧元(590万美元)周四的数据保护委员会强迫用户允许个人数据被用来提供“服务改进和安全”——但只有在一些欧洲同行拒绝最初决定让该公司。
本月早些时候在一个相关的决定,以类似的方式,爱尔兰的监督元平台公司。和3.9亿美元的罚款,迫使Facebook和Instagram用户同意个性化广告基于他们的网上活动。
所有三例可以追溯到2018年5月,当在这个27国集团的严格的隐私法规。
欧洲委员会,这是元的主要隐私监管机构因为公司地区总部是在都柏林,原本站在了硅谷巨人。但一系列其他欧盟数据保护监管机构反对决议草案和爱尔兰监管机构被迫推翻他们并发出严厉的惩罚。
在其最终决定WhatsApp情况下,委员会还命令该公司将其数据处理操作符合欧盟隐私在六个月内规则。
WhatsApp表示不同意的决定,并计划上诉。
“我们坚信,服务运作方式在技术上和法律上兼容,”在一份声明中说。
爱尔兰监管机构的决定是在干燥的技术语言与欧盟同行但紧张的迹象很明显,在附近的一个部分,它表示,欧盟数据保护监管机构委员会”传说的直接“进行新一轮调查WhatsApp所有的数据处理操作。
这不是董事会”指导和直接的权威进行开放式和投机的调查,“爱尔兰监管机构说,添加它将要求欧盟最高法院取消订单,因为它是“问题在司法方面。”
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