Ifeoma Joy Okorie reports:
- South Africa’s Information Regulator has issued an enforcement notice to Meta’s social platform, WhatsApp. This formal directive requires the messaging app to comply with data protection laws.
- The notice follows the regulator’s preliminary report, which found that WhatsApp applies different terms of service and privacy policies for European users compared to those outside Europe, including South African users.
InfoReg Chairperson Pansy Tlakula, highlighted that “the privacy safeguards for users in the European region appeared to be better than those for users in South Africa, even though the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and POPIA offer similar standards and protections.”
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