Facebook fined $120 million for defrauding a WhatsApp
Social network Facebook has been fined by the European Commission on the $120 million for providing false information in 2014 with the purchase of WhatsApp messenger.
Antimonopoly service said that the reason for the fine was a Facebook statement that the company is not able to automatically merge the accounts of users of the social network user accounts in the messenger. However, two years later, Facebook launched a service that allowed you to do this.
Antitrust regulators in the EU 2014, approved the purchase of WhatsApp, since the agreement between the companies did not threaten competition in the sector of social networks.
According to the EC Facebook intentionally has provided false data, although the technical possibility of combining the accounts of the users both resources already existed and employees knew about it.
In turn, the company made a statement in which States that made in the documentation 2014 the error was not deliberate and the end result of the transaction will not be affected. In addition, the press service Facebook noted that the fine does not cancel a deal to buy WhatsApp and not associated with any other investigations on the protection of user data.