Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User...
by woliveirajr on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @10:34AM
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Interesting when you confront this with those decisions of Brazilian courts of suspending /blocking WhatsApp during some days.
Because the response, from the court order, is always "Facebook and WhatsApp are separeted companies, you are asking Facebook (that has a office in Brazil) to answer for WhatsApp (that hasn't), Facebook doesn't have access to any meta-data from WhatsApp (including which user talked to another one)".
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Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User...
by thr0waway1239 on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @11:11AM
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If this is true, then Facebook might find itself in quite some bother now or in the future. Can you provide a reference?
Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User...
by flaviojuvenal on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @12:32PM
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Here is the reference. It's the text of one of judicial decisions that blocked Whatsapp in Brazil (translated to English): https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...
The relevant part is: "the other company, based in the country, has no "powers" on the company of your own conglomerate".
Note: in the same paragraph it says "a company does not have established in Germany". It's a Translator bug. The correct is: "one company is not established in the country".
Original text is at: http://tecnologia.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2016/07/19/vej...
Re:Facebook Ordered to Stop Collecting Data on WhatsApp User...
by dhimes on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @11:30AM
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For some previous discussions here:
duckduckgo whatsapp facebook brazil !hn