• Commission Nationale de l‘Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) publicly serves formal notice for lack of legal basis regarding Data transfer from WHATSAPP to FACEBOOK, 18 December 2017
In 2014, the company WHATSAPP was acquired by the company FACEBOOK Inc. On 25 August 2016, the company WHATSAPP released a new version of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for its application WhatsApp. It is explained that from now on, its users’ data are transferred to the company FACEBOOK Inc. for three purposes: targeted advertising, security and evaluation and improvement of services (“business intelligence").
