Facebook, WhatsApp Both Put Under Notice by Europe

The French privacy regulator, the National Commission of Computing and Freedoms (CNIL) has issued a formal notice on WhatsApp. It requires the Facebook company to stop personal data transfers to the parent company in the U.S. unless there is a legal basis for doing so. In particular, WhatsApp must obtain ‘user consent’ (within the meaning of European law) to gather and transfer that data.