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Information Commissioner Bars Facebook And WhatsApp Data Sharing
- Independent.co.uk, Tuesday, November 8, 2016 9:41 AM
Facebook has been forced to end a hugely controversial data sharing agreement with WhatsApp. The decision would have seen WhatsApp hand out information on all of its users to Facebook, letting the latter use data about people’s chats to inform its advertising. It would also have allowed companies to send WhatsApp's offers to people based on things they’ve bought on Facebook.
