WhatsApp by the district court of The Hague obliged to appoint a representative who any privacy questions from Dutch users ‘ needs.
With the appointment of a Dutch representative, also known as the ‘legal contact’, the company could comply with the personal data protection Act, so says the judge in the Hague. Through the representative you can you invoke the right to inspect your data to a service.
WhatsApp has no European branch, parent company, Facebook: they even have a Dutch office.
As WhatsApp is no Dutch representative point, there is a penalty of 10,000 euros per day up to a maximum of one million euros, according to the administrative judge today.
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WhatsApp was made in 2013 by the Authority Personal data (AP) on the fingers tapped because the chat app’s entire contacts list of users is saved, so also for non-users. Thus transgressed WhatsApp Dutch privacy law. A year later, explained the privacy watch dog WhatsApp a penalty, after which WhatsApp objections today.
the End of 2015, concluded the AP that WhatsApp changes had been made that the privacy of non-users are sufficiently protected. But WhatsApp wanted at that time no Dutch representative to appoint, because the company has no staff and only uses American servers.
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There is the Hague court not to agree: the administrative judge finds that ‘WhatsApp the data from its Dutch users processed via the app, which is located on Dutch smartphones, which can not be said that there is only throughput of data”.
In that case, according to the Law on protection of personal data WhatsApp a representative in the Netherlands to designate.
WhatsApp appealed on the upcoming European legislation, that American companies commit to starting in 2018, a European representative to disclaim. That argument was by the court overruled, because WhatsApp at all at this moment, not even
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According to the AP WhatsApp is no longer an indispensable part of our lives, because there are almost 10 million people who use it. “You are allowed to of a company like WhatsApp expect that they are at least here to have a representative”, said a spokesman of the AP.
“With a Dutch representative, citizens can better exercise their right. And we can, as the supervisor is better to check whether they meet the Dutch privacy legislation.”
WhatsApp let us know that the pronunciation studies.
privacy concerns
WhatsApp is the last time more often in the news because of privacy concerns of users and regulators. So is the chat-app is temporarily stopped with the sending of data from users to parent company Facebook, after objections from the European privacywaakhonden.
Facebook and WhatsApp say that there is very little data between the two services is shared. In addition, the companies that they are opening up to the privacywaakhonden ‘to work together and answer their questions’.
Source • RTL Z / Daniel Verlaan
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