In an effort to provide clarity to affected entities, the European Council (EC) has accelerated the approval process for the portion of the Omnibus impacting the reporting timeline - referred to as the ‘stop-the-clock’ directive.
In January WhatsApp announced that it is changing its data policies so that the users only options are either to agree to their data policy and make data about them available to Facebook, the owner of WhatsApp, and any of its chosen third parties or not use the service.