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Title: India Orders Meta To Curb WhatsApp Data Sharing

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/11/18/19562...

India's competition watchdog has ordered WhatsApp to stop sharing user data
with other Meta units for advertising purposes for five years and also levied
a fine of $25.4 million for antitrust violations related to WhatsApp's
controversial 2021 privacy policy. From a report: The Competition Commission
of India, which began the investigation in 2021, found that WhatsApp's "take-
it-or-leave-it" privacy update constituted an abuse of Meta's dominant
position by forcing users to accept expanded data collection without an opt-
out option. WhatsApp's 2021 privacy policy update required users to share
their data with Meta companies in order to continue using the messaging
service, removing a previous opt-out option that had existed since 2016. The
mandatory data-sharing requirement expanded the scope of data collection and
processing by Meta's group companies.

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