WhatsApp violates privacy laws in Canada and the Netherlands

A report by the Office of the Canadian Privacy and the Dutch Data Protection Authority that the application of the "Watts Up" WhatsApp famous instant messaging violates privacy laws in the two countries.

Collaborated bodies to investigate the practices of application "WhatsApp" - run company. WhatsApp Inc., based in California - to the personal information of users of its services.

And breach famous application of privacy laws in Canada and the Netherlands, requiring the user to allow him to enter a full record its numbers before starting to use messaging services.

And asks "WhatsApp" access to the entire record numbers to search for people using the application and the user then connecting them automatically the new service. And prohibit privacy laws in both countries to companies collect or keep phone numbers of people who have not submit them to the company or use its services, and in this regard the report makes clear, "rather than the application WhatsApp delete numbers is users of its services after checking all the numbers it keeps the records individually."

Bodies and warned of the continuation of the application at the same violations covered by privacy laws in the future; and threatened to take all necessary legal action against the developer of the application if it continues