{"id":26874,"date":"2016-09-30T09:35:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T09:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digife.it\/?p=26874"},"modified":"2016-09-30T09:35:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T09:35:44","slug":"germany-italy-brake-colossus-zuckerberg-more-clarification-on-data-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digife.it\/en\/germany-italy-brake-colossus-zuckerberg-more-clarification-on-data-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany and Italy hold back the Zuckerberg giant: more clarifications on data traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>WhatsApp transmits user data to Facebook<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statistics speak for themselves! Italians love i <strong>social network<\/strong>! Favorite social is <strong>Facebook<\/strong>, used by 56.2% of the national population. In the second position there is <strong>Whatsapp<\/strong>, the instant messaging service purchased by <strong>Marc Zuckerberg&#039;s company<\/strong>, used by six Italians out of 10. Today, however, these social networks are the protagonists of a <strong>debate<\/strong> which concerns access to <strong>user data<\/strong>. Let&#039;s try to understand what is happening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When in 2014 <strong>Facebook bought Whatsapp<\/strong> for the modest sum of $ 19 billion, Jan Koum, the founder of the world&#039;s most populous messaging service, swore and perjured that he would protect user data, saying the sale to the company of <strong>Marc Zuckerberg<\/strong> would not have entailed the modification of company policies on the subject of <strong>right to privacy<\/strong>. Instead, as many had predicted, the <strong>privacy rules<\/strong>, today, they are changing and how. <strong>Whatsapp<\/strong> has announced that it will share some data with <strong>Facebook<\/strong>, including the telephone numbers of the users, to allow a <strong>Zuckerberg<\/strong> to send friends&#039; best suggestions and send users more relevant ads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Data sharing between <strong>Whatsapp and Facebook<\/strong>, could cause legal problems in different parts of Europe and, for this reason, the privacy regulators want more clarification on the <strong>sharing of sensitive data<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The focus of the matter is that <strong>Facebook<\/strong> should have asked, in advance, users whether or not they want to connect their account with <strong>Facebook <\/strong>and this did not happen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For this reason the German privacy protection agency, based in Hamburg, the hub city of the German activities of <strong>Facebook<\/strong>, has decided to say no to data sharing, ordering the Californian company to delete the data transmitted to date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Johannes Caspar, the Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Hamburg said that what is happening is not only deceptive to users and the public, but also constitutes a violation of national data protection legislation. data.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also in Italy <strong>Whatsapp<\/strong> is <strong>Facebook<\/strong> they will have to answer to the Privacy Guarantor. The President of the Italian Authority, Antonello Soro, defined the alarming situation, since it is not only the <strong>sensitive data of Facebook and Whatsapp users<\/strong>, but also those of users not subscribed to either of the two services, whose data are transmitted for the sole fact of being in the address book of a user of <strong>Whatsapp<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In short, the regulatory bodies want more clarification on how <strong>Facebook<\/strong> intends to collect and manage i <strong>sensitive data of over a billion whatsapp accounts<\/strong>, as the pop-up warning that appeared on users&#039; screens a few weeks ago was not considered adequate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp transmits user data to Facebook The statistics speak for themselves! Italians love social networks! The favorite social network is Facebook, used by 56,2% of the national population. 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