WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French authorities

Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by rconti on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @03:52PM (#15964142)

I'm an EU citizen and was not aware of this "demand for data" thing. What does physical copy mean? Are they going to send me 20 boxes full of papers?

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Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by rmc on Friday December 22, 2017 @05:22AM (#15986448)

You are allowed to get a request of all personal data that someone/some company has one you. So you can contact Facebook and say "Please give me a copy of all the data you hold on me" and they have to give it to you. When Max Schrems did they first, Facebook did send a CD with a ~1,000 page PDF "print out". It garnered some media attention since it shows how much they do collect on people./

The maximum they can charge is set in law and is about €5.

More details for Facebook here: http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data...

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Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by tscs37 on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:19PM (#15964383)

The GDPR specifically addresses only a copy of your data in a widely used digital format.

I believe in Germany you can have someone send all your private data once a year in physical copy and you only need to pay for undue transport costs.

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Re:WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by ... by vilmosi on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @04:07PM (#15964265)

Not physical paper, but you can download all the data they have on you at any time if you want.

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