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Facebook gave ‘misleading’ information over WhatsApp: EU
- Updated: December 26, 2016
London: In a reversal for Facebook, a European Commission (EC) has charged a amicable media hulk with providing “incorrect information” during a examination into a partnership of a renouned mobile messaging app WhatsApp.
Facebook could face excellent of adult to 1 per cent of a tellurian turnover in 2014 (over $10 billion during that time) when a partnership was approved, The Guardian reported on Wednesday.
“Our timely and effective examination of mergers depends on a correctness of a information supposing by a companies involved. In this specific case, a commission’s rough perspective is that Facebook gave us improper or dubious information during a examination into a partnership of WhatsApp. Facebook now has a event to respond,” European foe commissioner Margrethe Vestager pronounced in a statement.
According to a Fortune report, a EU movement comes after a WhatsApp remoteness routine change in Aug this year observant it would share some users’ phone numbers with primogenitor association Facebook, triggering investigations by EU information insurance authorities.
Facebook, that has 1.71 billion users, has time compartment Jan 31 to respond to a charges.
“The Commission takes a rough perspective that, discordant to Facebook’s statements and respond during a partnership review, a technical probability of automatically relating Facebook users’ IDs with WhatsApp users’ IDs already existed in 2014,” a matter added.
The EU move, however, will not have an impact on a capitulation of a $22 billion partnership in 2014.
“Companies are thankful to give a elect accurate information during partnership investigations. They contingency take this requirement seriously,” combined Vestager who has also demanded that tech hulk Apple contingency compensate behind $14 billion in taxes to Ireland.
“We honour a commission’s routine and are assured that a full examination of a contribution will endorse Facebook has acted in good faith,” a Facebook orator responded to a EU matter of objections.
Facebook, however, stopped a use of user information common between WhatsApp and Facebook for promotion functions in November.