Facebook messaging services: what they do not tell us

Ο επικεφαλής προστασίας προσωπικών δεδομένων στην Ιρλανδία ζήτησε από το Facebook "επείγουσα ενημέρωση" για τα σχέδια ενσωμάτωσης των τριών πλατφορμών αντof social network messages (WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger).Facebook

In a statement that posted on her website at the end of last week, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) states:

Previous data exchange suggestions between Facebook companies have raised major data protection concerns and the Irish DPC will seek timely assurances that all these concerns will be taken into account by Facebook in the further development of this proposal.

Last week, the New York Times reported that Facebook intends to unify the infrastructure of its three separate products. The idea came from Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who has long been checking the applications whose founders have abandoned management.

Facebook a little background:

The founders of Instagram, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, they left from Facebook last year, due to the increasing tensions stemming from the reduction of management rights and decision-making on the platform.

While the founders of WhatsApp left Facebook earlier, with Brian Acton leaving 2017 late and Jan Koum in the spring of 2018. The two founders and former platform administrators clashed with Facebook on the privacy of users and on how to monetize the end-to-end encrypted service.

Acton later said Facebook had asked him to tell European regulators trying to assess whether to approve the 2014 purchase that it was "really difficult" for the company to merge WhatsApp and Facebook user data.

In this case, Facebook started to link accounts on the two platforms two years after the completion of the acquisition. Αργότερα του επιβλήθηκε πρόστιμο 122 εκατομμυρίων δολαρίων, από την Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή για την παροχή "εσφαλμένων ή παραπλανητικών" πληροφοριών κατά τη των εταιρειών. Το Faceboοk βέβαια ισχυρίστηκε ότι είχε κάνει μερικά ακούσια "σφάλματα" στην μελέτη εξαγοράς που κατέθεσε το 2014.

Two more years have passed and Facebook has decided to fully integrate the company's messaging services.

Today:

"Θέλουμε να δημιουργήσουμε καλύτερες εμπειρίες ανταλλαγής μηνυμάτων. Οι άνθρωποι θέλουν τα μηνύματά τους να είναι γρήγορα, απλά, αξιόπιστα και ιδιωτικά" ανέφερε ένας εκπρόσωπος της εταιρείας στο Techcrunch.

We try to make most of the encrypted messaging and we're looking at ways to make it easier for friends and family to reach out to networks.

"Όπως θα περίμενε κανείς, υπάρχει πολλή συζήτηση καθώς ξεκινάμε τη μακρά εξεύρεσης όλων των λεπτομερειών στο πώς θα λειτουργήσει όλο αυτό", πρόσθεσε ο εκπρόσωπος, επιβεβαιώνοντας την δημοσίευση της NYT.

Surely there will be too many details to be considered.
For example, let us mention a turn made by WhatsApp 2015, when it suddenly announced that it would share user data with the parent company Facebook (despite saying it would never do so), caused immediate regulatory intervention.

Of course the expediency of the upcoming merger of user data from different platforms could be purely for commercial purposes, something that is not mentioned anywhere.

Μετά την αναταραχή του 2015, το Facebook αναγκάστηκε να αναστείλει τις ροές δεδομένων για marketing στην Ευρώπη, αν και συνέχισε να μοιράζεται δεδομένα μεταξύ της WhatsApp και του Faceboοk για σκοπούς "ασφάλειας και επιχειρηματικής ευφυΐας." Έτσι η γαλλική υπηρεσία παρακολούθησης δεδομένων με μια επίσημη ανακοίνωση στα τέλη του 2017, προειδοποίησε το μεγαλύτερο κοινωνικό δίκτυο ότι οι ενέργειες αυτές στερούνται κάθε νομικής βάσης.

On the other hand, a court in Hamburg, Germany, formally banned Facebook from using WhatsApp user data for every purpose.

Early last year, after for the data exchange, data watchdogs from the United Kingdom asked for a commitment from WhatsApp that it will not share personal data with Facebook until the two services decide to do so in a way that complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). .

After all, what do you think? Facebook's statement stating that it is trying to develop messaging services to help bring friends closer to networks?

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