At the beginning of this year, the communication application Whatsapp, owned by Facebook Inc., Facebook Ireland Ltd. and Whatsapp LLC (will be referred to as “Facebook”), had announced a new update of its terms of service and privacy policy allowing integrations across Facebook-owned products, meaning a new route for handling how their users’ data will be processed and shared. Whatsapp also stated that any user who hasn’t accepted their new terms for handling data would not be able to use their service in a complete manner.
Consequently, the Competition Authority had conducted an investigation and imposed an interim measure to suspend their execution of said “update”, via its decision dated 11.01.2021, on the grounds that the risk of exclusionary and exploitative effect. Thereafter Whatsapp notified they postponed the new terms of service globally.
Competition Authority announced on 21.05.2021 via their website, that in the sequel of their investigation, Whatsapp reported to take back their terms of service update for Turkey and will not enter into force for any users, including the users who approved the update prior.
You may reach the announcement from here.
