The statement of objections sent to Facebook will not have an impact on the approval of the $22 billion merger in 2014, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
The issue regards a WhatsApp privacy policy change in August in which it said it would share some users’ phone numbers with parent company Facebook, triggering investigations by a number of EU data protection authorities.
The Commission said Facebook had indicated in its notification of the acquisition that it would be unable reliably to match the two companies’ user accounts. Facebook has until January 31 to respond. (Reuters)
EU charges Facebook with misleading information during WhatsApp takeover
20 December 2016
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EU antitrust regulators have charged Facebook Inc with providing misleading information during its takeover of WhatsApp, opening the company to a possible fine of 1 percent of its turnover.
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