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According to a report by Reuters<\/strong><\/a>, the Office said Facebook will face “enforcement action” if it uses the data without valid consent.<\/p>\n “The two companies have also come under scrutiny from the European Union’s 28 data protection authorities, who last month requested that WhatsApp pause sharing users’ data,” stated the report.<\/p>\n Facebook and WhatsApp have also been asked\u00a0to sign an undertaking to better explain to consumers how their data is shared between the platforms, stated Reuters.<\/p>\n “We think consumers deserve a greater level of information and protection, but so far Facebook hasn’t agreed,” said the ICO.<\/p>\n Britain’s Information Commissioner’s Office said Facebook has agreed to suspend using data from UK WhatsApp users for advertisements or product-improvement purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,161,2594],"class_list":["post-186249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186251,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186249\/revisions\/186251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Facebook unveils promoted job listings<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"