India orders Meta to curb WhatsApp data sharing, levies $25M fine

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India orders Meta to curb WhatsApp data sharing, levies $25M fine | TechCrunch

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India's competition watchdog has ordered WhatsApp to stop sharing user data with other Meta units for advertising purposes for five years and also levied India's competition watchdog has fined Meta $25.4 million for antitrust violations related to WhatsApp's 2021 privacy policy.

India’s competition watchdog has ordered WhatsApp to stop sharing user data with other Meta units for advertising purposes for five years and also levied India’s competition watchdog has fined Meta $25.4 million for antitrust violations related to WhatsApp’s 2021 privacy policy.

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They made $25M in the time it took them to write out the fine.

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