An adviser to Europe’s top court has backed Meta‘s WhatsApp in its fight with the EU privacy watchdog, which had ordered the Irish data protection authority to raise a fine four years ago for privacy breaches, Reuters’ Foo Yun Chee reports. The Irish authority fined WhatsApp $242.2M in 2021 following complaints about its use of personal data in Ireland, with the higher penalty coming after the European Data Protection Board intervened in the case.
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