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WhatsApp faces revamped GDPR penalty after national enforcers contest fine range

By Matthew Newman and Vesela Gladicheva ( July 29, 2021, 16:26 GMT | Insight) -- Facebook-owned WhatsApp will learn by the end of next month how much it will be fined for violating EU privacy rules on transparency after the bloc's regulators told Ireland's Data Protection Commission that it must raise the penalty against the messaging service, MLex has learned. Several national data protection authorities, including Germany's, contested the penalty range, and sought a binding a decision by the EDPB requiring the Irish DPC to boost the amount.Facebook-owned WhatsApp will learn by the end of next month how much it will be fined for violating EU privacy rules on transparency after the bloc's regulators told Ireland's Data Protection Commission that it must raise the penalty against the messaging service, MLex has learned....

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