Today, WhatsApp and Meta have been fined more than 5 million TL for not fulfilling some of their obligations by the Personal Data Protection Board or KVKK with its known abbreviation. Here are the details…
KVKK decided to fined Meta and Whatsapp!
In the past years, while Meta was not yet the umbrella company of Facebook and other platforms, the actions of the Zuckerberg administration entered the Competition Authority’s radar. Later in October, a fine of nearly 350 million TL ($ 18.6 million) was issued on the grounds of irregularities in the WhatsApp application.
Of course, he was punished for various reasons not only by Turkey, but also by many countries and institutions, especially the EU and the USA. For example, 1.5 years ago, in November 2021, it left the European Union. EUR 225 million (£188 million) The company’s privacy policy has been updated after the fine.
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About a month before this event, the KVKK decided to impose an administrative fine of nearly 2 million TL on WhatsApp due to the fact that privacy policies were not mentioned transparently. There are more examples in other countries than we can count.
Today, the Personal Data Protection Board, or KVKK with its known abbreviation, has fined 5 million 330 thousand TL for WhatsApp and Meta. Failure to comply with the registration obligation was cited as the reason. It was also stated that if this obligation is not completed within 30 days, the penalties will increase exponentially.
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