… 116 117 118 119 In January 2021, WhatsApp announced a controversial new privacy policy allowing WhatsApp to share data with its parent company, Facebook. This led many users to delete WhatsApp and instead use services such as Signal and Telegram . …
… Facebook as an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook. The lawsuit concerns Facebook's acquisition of two competitors— Instagram and WhatsApp —and the ensuing monopolistic situation. …
… 109 In September 2022, Ireland 's Data Protection Commission fined the company $402 million under privacy laws recently adopted by the European Union over how it handled the privacy data of minors. …
… This dangerous spyware was sent via WhatsApp and infected many Samsung phones over the course of a year. …