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Argentina orders Facebook to suspend WhatsApp privacy policy update to prevent more dominant position

By Caio Rinaldi ( May 18, 2021, 20:44 GMT | Insight) -- Facebook was ordered by Argentina authorities to suspend its most recent privacy policy update, implemented on May 15, for the next six months or until its impacts are properly assessed. The country's competition watchdog was tasked with carrying out an in-depth investigation of the potential impacts of the update.Argentina authorities have ordered Facebook to suspend its most recent privacy-policy update, implemented on May 15, for the next six months or until its impacts are properly assessed. The order was issued by the Secretariat for Internal Trade of the country’s Ministry of Productive Development and was published in Argentina’s official journal yesterday....

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