A German Data Protection Authority has banned Facebook from processing personal data from WhatsApp users because it views the messaging app's new terms of use as illegal. The decision made by the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection follows emergency proceedings last month after WhatsApp required users to consent to new terms or stop using the service. Hamburg's data protection officer Johannes Caspar said: "This order seeks to secure the rights and freedoms of the many millions of users who give their consent to the terms of use throughout Germany." The announcement came after news broke WhatsApp will relax its privacy policy deadline.
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