The Italian Competition Authority announced on Friday it was launching two new investigations into the privacy practices of Facebook-owned WhatsApp, saying it would look into whether users had been “de facto forced” to accept new terms and conditions applicable to personal data sharing.
The consumer agency said in a release that the application could have led users to believe they were required to accept new terms of service granting the application consent to share their data with Facebook, “allegedly making them believe, through a message made visible when opening the application, that it would have been otherwise impossible to continue using it.”
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