{"id":2707,"date":"2021-09-02T14:38:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T12:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/ireland-watchdog-fines-whatsapp-record-sum-for-flouting-eu-privacy-rules\/"},"modified":"2021-09-02T14:38:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T12:38:55","slug":"ireland-watchdog-fines-whatsapp-record-sum-for-flouting-eu-privacy-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/ireland-watchdog-fines-whatsapp-record-sum-for-flouting-eu-privacy-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland watchdog fines WhatsApp record sum for flouting EU privacy rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Messaging app calls \u20ac225m fine for breaking data protection rules \u2018entirely disproportionate\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ireland\">Ireland<\/a>\u2019s data privacy watchdog has slapped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/whatsapp\">WhatsApp <\/a>with a record \u20ac225m (\u00a3193m) fine for violating EU data protection rules.<\/p>\n<p>The Dublin-based Data Protection Commission (DPC) <a href=\"https:\/\/edpb.europa.eu\/our-work-tools\/consistency-findings\/register-for-decisions_en\">announced the decision<\/a> on Thursday after a three-year investigation into the messaging app, which is owned by Facebook. It ordered WhatsApp to remedy its behaviour to protect privacy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/sep\/02\/ireland-watchdog-fines-whatsapp-record-sum-for-flouting-eu-privacy-rules\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/32c4924bb8f691dd52671b5f7c21b9c1ab2c2767\/0_143_4090_2455\/master\/4090.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e1c20113bfa5011459451dd6330e95be\" title=\"Ireland watchdog fines WhatsApp record sum for flouting EU privacy rules\" \/>Messaging app calls \u20ac225m fine for breaking data protection rules \u2018entirely disproportionate\u2019<br \/>\nIreland\u2019s data privacy watchdog has slapped WhatsApp with a record \u20ac225m (\u00a3193m) fine for violating EU data protection rules.<br \/>\nThe Dublin-based Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced the decision on Thursday after a three-year investigation into the messaging app, which is owned by Facebook. It ordered WhatsApp to remedy its behaviour to protect privacy. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messaging app calls \u20ac225m fine for breaking data protection rules \u2018entirely disproportionate\u2019 Ireland\u2019s data privacy watchdog has slapped WhatsApp with a record \u20ac225m (\u00a3193m) fine for violating EU data protection rules. The Dublin-based Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced the decision on Thursday after a three-year investigation into the messaging app, which is owned by Facebook. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/ireland-watchdog-fines-whatsapp-record-sum-for-flouting-eu-privacy-rules\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ireland watchdog fines WhatsApp record sum for flouting EU privacy rules<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}