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Facebook Warned for Breaching  EU WhatsApp Data Privacy
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Facebook Warned for Breaching EU WhatsApp Data Privacy

Germany has warned Facebook of breaching EU WhatsApp data privacy. Facebook explains the "fundamental misunderstanding." Data privacy at Facebook has always been an issue. Several revelations disclose that big organizations harvest users' data for targeted advertisements, especially political advertising from Facebook. The social media platform has over a ten-year track record of events exposing ineffective data privacy protection policies. The most recent incident stands out because of the large number of accounts that were hacked. Personal information from over half a billion Facebook users in 106 countries was leaked online. Over 32 million accounts were compromised in the United States, 11.5 million accounts in the United Kingdom, and 6 million in India.  The leaked data is used to sen...
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