{"id":85725,"date":"2024-07-19T22:56:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T22:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/?p=85725"},"modified":"2024-07-19T22:56:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T22:56:59","slug":"abuse-of-user-data-fccpc-imposes-220m-fines-on-whatsapp-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/abuse-of-user-data-fccpc-imposes-220m-fines-on-whatsapp-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuse of User-Data: FCCPC Imposes $220m Fines on WhatsApp, Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"single_article\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-11\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) Friday imposed a $220 million fine on Meta, formerly known as Facebook and WhatsApp over alleged consumer rights\u2019 infringements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement, acting Executive Vice Chairman\/Chief Executive, FCCPC, Dr. Adamu Abdullahi, accused the social media platforms of denying Nigerian data subjects the right to self-determine; unauthorised transfer and sharing of Nigerian data-subjects personal data, including cross- border storage in \u201cviolation of then, and now prevailing law\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The commission further indicted the platforms over discrimination and disparate treatment; abuse of dominance; and tying and bundling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Details later\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Thisday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) Friday imposed a $220 million fine on Meta, formerly known as Facebook and WhatsApp over alleged consumer rights\u2019 infringements. In a statement, acting Executive Vice Chairman\/Chief Executive, FCCPC, Dr. Adamu Abdullahi, accused the social media platforms of denying Nigerian data subjects the right to self-determine; unauthorised transfer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":50399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-compliance-officer"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/FCCPC.jpg?fit=700%2C398&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85728,"href":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85725\/revisions\/85728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}