WhatsApp breaches privacy laws

Monday, January 28, 2013 - 12:30 in Mathematics & Economics

A popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp breaches Canadian privacy law by forcing many of its users to grant access to their entire address book in order to use it, Canada's privacy watchdog has found in a joint investigation with Dutch authorities.

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