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WhatsApp's contested Irish GDPR probe decision forwarded to EU watchdogs

By Vesela Gladicheva ( June 17, 2021, 10:57 GMT | Insight) -- Facebook's messaging service, WhatsApp, has seen a major Irish privacy probe dragged into the GDPR's dispute-resolution, the Irish Data Protection Commission confirmed to MLex today. The case is the third to test the role of the EDPB, the umbrella group for EU privacy watchdogs, as a mediator with powers to issue a binding decision on the investigating authority and target company.Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp has seen a major Irish data-protection probe enter the top-level dispute-resolution mechanism under EU privacy rules, the Irish Data Protection Commission confirmed to MLex today....

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