> We’re updating our Privacy Policy for our users, at the direction of our lead European data protection regulator, the Irish Data Protection Commission.
You can practically hear them gritting their teeth while writing this.
They claim they didn't have to change anything though?
> This update does not change the way we operate our service, including how we process, use or share your data with anyone, including our parent company Meta.
The investigation into WhatsApp was scoped solely to problems with its privacy policy, and how important information was either confusing or missing. The investigation explicitly did not address how data was processed, merely WhatsApp's obligation to inform users about certain aspects of how their data was handled.
Within that limited Scope, WhatsApp was fined 225 million Euros for those deficiencies, which is still the second-largest GDPR fine to date.
Yes it is kind of discriminating if you are among the 2% of cases where the Irish DPA does something [1]... I sometimes find myself thinking this is rather paid propaganda to make the Irish DPA actually look mean (in a positive way for them)
You can practically hear them gritting their teeth while writing this.